Conversational Partners

The Conversational Partners Program is a semester-long program that provides international students in the Intensive English Institute (IEI) with the opportunity to improve their English speaking and listening abilities. This voluntary program is available to all students in the IEI.
At the beginning of the semester, the students are paired randomly with a volunteer native speaker who is also a Ball State student, and the pairs meet for two hours a week to speak and interact in English.

The Conversational Partners Program is:
• voluntary
• free
• flexible; conversation partners decide where and when to meet and also what to talk about during the meetings
• not graded; students do not ‘pass' or ‘fail' the program
• great in helping you improve your speaking and listening skills, and to learn about US culture