{"id":11903,"date":"2025-02-04T08:55:35","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T14:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin-new\/?post_type=campus_story&p=11903"},"modified":"2025-02-04T08:55:35","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T14:55:35","slug":"uw-stevens-point-students-receive-an-opportunity-to-teach-english-internationally","status":"publish","type":"campus_story","link":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/story\/uw-stevens-point-students-receive-an-opportunity-to-teach-english-internationally\/","title":{"rendered":"UW-Stevens Point students receive an opportunity to teach English internationally"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UW-Stevens Point students Kylie Newton (left) and Morgan Hansen (right) will travel to Spain to teach English to native Spanish speakers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Two University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point students are waiting to learn where they will live and work in Spain next fall. Spanish undergraduate senior Kylie Newton and junior Morgan Hansen have been accepted into the RVF International program to teach English to native Spanish speakers.<\/p>\n

It won\u2019t be their first time living in Spain. The pair traveled to Spain their sophomore year through the UW-Stevens Point\u00a0Study Abroad<\/a>\u00a0program to Valladolid. There they were immersed in the culture and it pushed them to connect with people through their second language.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just love to talk and to be able to do that with anyone regardless of\u00a0 language would be awesome,\u201d Hansen said.<\/p>\n

When they returned to Stevens Point, Hansen and Newton didn\u2019t want to lose the conversational Spanish skills they had grown in daily practice. As members of the Spanish Club, they decided to try something new to benefit their club members. This fall they launched Caf\u00e9 y Conversaciones at the Basement Brewhaus in the Dreyfus University Center each week to allow for time set aside to converse with other\u00a0 members entirely in Spanish.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to encourage progress over perfection,\u201d Newton said.<\/p>\n

This year, Newton is the club\u2019s president. She enjoys her time as a Tutoring Learning Center tutor for Spanish and for the Writing Center. Newton also majors in English: Writing, Editing, & Publishing. The English language assistant program in Spain will combine everything she loves doing.<\/p>\n

Newton will complete her student teaching in Spanish in the spring semester. Her Spanish teaching practicum is at Ben Franklin Middle School in Stevens Point. She said her drive is to follow in her dad\u2019s footsteps, who also teaches at the middle school level.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really like to help people,\u201d Newton said. \u201cI\u2019ve always felt called to serve others and that is really what teaching is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hansen said her semester abroad was impactful, wants to go back to fully immerse herself. From the architecture to the food and pace of life, she knew after her initial living experience in Spain, that she wanted to immerse herself there again. As an international studies major, she looks forward to continually growing her cultural skills. Hansen said she could imagine working some day in international affairs, business or in a governmental role as a translator.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt takes a certain amount of bravery to be forced to figure things out for yourself while abroad,\u201d said Hansen.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s just something about being there. You get to see and be part of this incredible humankind. There\u2019s a deep connectiveness between all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Written by UW-Stevens Point<\/p>\n

Link to original story: https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/news\/newton-hansen24\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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