The guide contains suggestions for University of Tennessee, Knoxville foreign teaching assistants to improve their command of spoken English. The first section offers four speech improvement suggestions requiring little or no extra time, including speaking English as much and as often as possible, imitating native speakers, asking for the correct form, and finding out what problems need the most attention. The second section lists relevant resources at the university, including testing and analysis, offerings and services of the audiology and speech and hearing departments, foreign student programs, American students willing to act as conversation partners, tapes and taped programs, trading of tutorial services, and television programs with a lot of conversational content. (MSE)