The Conversation Partners Program

August 29, 2020

From:  Prof. Elisabeth Gareis, Communication Studies

Connecting with fellow students and building community is especially important during COVID times. Please announce the following opportunity to connect to your students.

The Conversation Partners Program (CPP) matches native and nonnative speakers of English for informal conversations. It is a great way for nonnative students to gain confidence in English, for native speakers to gain experience in communicating across language barriers, and for both native and nonnative speakers to expand their cultural knowledge, make friends, and build a network of professional contacts. To participate, students should be willing to commit to meeting their partner at least six times this semester for about one hour. The meetings between students as well as all events this semester will take place online.

Note: The CPP often has more nonnative than native students signing up:  please encourage both nonnative and native speakers to participate.

For more information and to sign up, see  http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/cpp

The deadline for signing up is Thursday, Sept. 24.

Elisabeth Gareis
Professor
Dept. of Communication Studies, B8-240
Baruch College
55 Lexington Ave.
New York, NY 10010
Tel.: 646-312-3731
E-mail: egareis@baruch.cuny.edu
http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/wsas/academics/communication/egareis.htm