{"id":4488,"date":"2023-09-07T16:35:56","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T16:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=4488"},"modified":"2023-09-07T16:35:59","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T16:35:59","slug":"conversation-partners-aims-to-connect-domestic-and-international-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2023\/09\/07\/conversation-partners-aims-to-connect-domestic-and-international-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Conversation Partners aims to connect domestic and international students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TROY, Ala. (<a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TROJANVISION<\/a>) \u2014Troy University has a program where international and American students can learn from one another. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conversation Partners is a program where international students are partnered with domestic students to learn about the American culture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;International students are desperate to meet students from America,&#8221; said the Director of the English as a Second Language (ESL) Department, Lance Noe. &#8220;They want to meet their peers and they want to know about the American culture, they want to know what American students are like.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conversation Partners is not a tutoring program. Instead, it&#8217;s a program meant to bring people together. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s mostly a cultural exchange,&#8221; Noe explained. &#8220;We want the international students to meet an American friend and we want the Americans to have an international friends, so it&#8217;s more of a friendship connection.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even though Conversation Partners is about helping international students learn about the American culture, Noe believes American students can also benefit from the program. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The biggest thing that I think comes out of it is that students here at TROY, many of them will become friends with an international person, learn about that culture, and they do study abroad,&#8221; Noe said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students that are interested in joining the Conversation Partners program, should email Marcus Frame at mframe@troy.edu. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To keep up with the ESL Department this semester, people can follow them on Instagram and TikTok @troyuniversity_int. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014Troy University has a program where international and American students can learn from one another. <\/p>\n<p>Conversation Partners is a program where international students are partnered with domestic students to learn about the American culture. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;International students are desperate to meet students from America,&#8221; said the Director of the English as&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2023\/09\/07\/conversation-partners-aims-to-connect-domestic-and-international-students\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":4527,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1011],"topics":[12,17],"class_list":["post-4488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-international-students","topics-international","topics-troy-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4488"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=4488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}