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UCM English Language Center to host students from Mexico

By JIEUN HONG

(WARRENSBURG, Mo., digitalBURG) — The English Language Center at the University of Central Missouri is planning to welcome a group of students and educators from Mexico on Saturday, June 18.

This group is part of the Proyecta 100K program, which is a cooperative education program between the U.S. and Mexican governments. This is the second time the university’s ELC has served as a host institution, said Valerie Heming, director of the English Language Center. The goal of the program is to bring 100,000 Mexican students to study in the United States and to send 50,000 U.S. students to Mexico by 2018.

Heming said the group scheduled to come to UCM will consist of 15 participants, including three faculty members and 12 college students from three different universities. The program, which is four weeks long, will run from June 18-July 16. Jill Thomas, program coordinator at the English Language Center, said these students will take courses in reading, writing, grammar, listening and speaking, and American culture.

Heming said the first group from Mexico that came through the same program in the fall of 2014 had a positive experience.

Thomas said the program helps bring students together.

“This is a great way for international students who come to us to get to have contact with students from Mexico, and even American students have more contact with the students from Mexico,” Thomas said.

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