Please fill out a background questionnaire before making an appointment. After completing the questionnaire, you will receive a link to STAR Balance, where you will be able to make an appointment.
How to make an appointment
CASE tutoring sessions will be available from January 13th!
- Visit STAR Balance
- Click Enter
- Log in to STAR with your UH ID and password
(if you are a HELP student, please log in by creating a guest ID and password) - Click on an available appointment slot
- Select an available tutor by checking the box, the duration of your session, and whether you would like to meet in person or online
- Please indicate if you would like pronunciation or presentation tutoring
- Write about an area that you would like to focus on and indicate that this will be your first visit to CASE in the “appointment comment” section
- Hit “Submit” to confirm your appointment!
- Compete the background questionnaire before the first session.
How to cancel your appointment
- Visit STAR Balance
- Click Enter
- Log in to STAR with your UH ID and password
(if you are a HELP student, please log in by creating a guest ID and password) - Click the “X” and click Cancel Appointment button
- You and your tutor will get cancellation emails if the appointment has been cancelled
What to Expect at a CASE Tutoring Session
- One-on-one practice sessions
- Experienced speaking tutors
- Lessons made to your speaking ability
For Pronunciation tutoring, your first lesson will take about 30 minutes, which includes an introduction, speaking diagnostic, and consultation. After the first lesson, you and your tutor will start working on the most crucial area of pronunciation based on the results of your diagnostic. This could be areas such as word stress, sentence stress, rhythm, consonants, vowels, etc. Usually, you will work on one or two aspects of pronunciation in each 45-minute session. There is no homework, but if you wish to practice at home, your tutor will share related materials.
For Presentation tutoring, you should bring a prepared presentation to practice. For example, an upcoming class presentation you will give. Your tutor will provide you with feedback and coaching on your presentation, with a focus on your oral delivery (such as pronunciation and fluency). The tutors at CASE will not help you write a presentation, but are highly capable in helping you improve the delivery of your presentation, and will provide you feedback on important presentation skills.
For both pronunciation and presentation tutoring, you can make another appointment at your convenience. You can choose the same tutor or a different tutor as you wish. The content you work on each lesson will be recorded in CASE, so you do not have to worry about keeping track of what you did in each lesson. Please only sign up for a maximum of two sessions per week, with each session on a different day.