Volunteer conversation program opens cross-border dialogue

Vanguard
By Li Chun Wu and Chris May
December 4, 2017

For the past 15 years, Portland State's Volunteer Conversation Program has acted as a bridge connecting American students with international students from PSU's Intensive English Language Program.

"The volunteer program not only gives [international] students a good chance to practice speaking English, it also supplies American students with a good opportunity to come in contact with different cultures," said undergraduate student Peter Brown dos Reis, who currently serves as the IELP Learning Center's volunteer conversation program coordinator.

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