Summer Course in English Phonetics

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Summer Course in English Phonetics

How to apply

Photograph

All participants on SCEP will be issued with a photo ID card. It will be essential to carry the card at all times. In some locations the card will operate electronic security gates, in others it will have to be shown to security staff. Without the card, it will not be possible to move around the college, or gain entry to the relevant buildings.

A passport-type photograph is required. You must send us a digital photo in advance, so that we can arrange for your card to be prepared ready to be given to you when you register on the first day of SCEP.

A photograph you take yourself -- including one taken with your phone -- will almost certainly be acceptable.The photo should show you facing the camera, against a light plain background, with a neutral expression. We need a colour image, submitted as a jpg file as an attachment to an email. The file need not be very large. 680 x 480 pixels is sufficient. This will have a file size of only 50-100KB. Please do not send enormous files which will jam our mailbox. If your file is bigger than 1MB, something is wrong! The file name MUST be your own name, surname first, and one given name, with the parts separated by the hyphen character; for example: ashby-michael.jpg

Please mail the photo as soon as possible to scep@phon.ucl.ac.uk, with "SCEP ID photo" in the subject field of your message.

Any photo that you send us will be stored securely, and will not be used for any other purpose except the preparation of your ID card.

Admissions requirements

All course members must be at least eighteen years of age and have a good working knowledge of English (you do not have to prove this to us: but the level we advise is Cambridge First Certificate Grade C or above, IELTS 6.5 or higher, TOEFL 540 or higher).

The EFL strand of the course is primarily intended for those whose mother tongue is not English, but a small number of native speakers are also admitted each year. For the IPA strand applications from native speakers of English are encouraged as well as from speakers of other languages.

Applicants for the IPA strand must already have a good knowledge of the subject, so as to have a reasonable expectation of succeeding in the examination after two weeks dedicated study. Before we accept you, we require you to take a 2 and half hour entrance test at home, without access to books or notes. You should attempt the test before applying and as early as possible (there is no charge for the test). Advice on the completion of the test is available on the website and we recommend that you study this before attempting the test. After we send you the test materials, you will have three weeks to complete and return the test. If your performance in the test indicates that you have a good chance of success in the examination after two weeks' tuition, we will accept you for the IPA strand; if not, we will invite you to join the EFL strand instead at an appropriate level of difficulty.