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On June 3 CASLS celebrated the success of the Spring 2016 Oregon International Internship Program interns as they get ready to complete their 5-month internship on June 17.

OIIP sponsors students from universities in China, Japan, and Taiwan to come to the Eugene-Springfield area and gain valuable classroom experience by shadowing a mentor elementary school teacher for five days a week. This full-time internship is complemented by two courses at the University of Oregon on English pragmatics and teaching pedagogy. Students also live with an American family and gain valuable conversational and cultural knowledge to take back with them.

At the farewell party [photo below] CASLS honored the interns’ hard work and expressed gratitude to the mentor teachers and homestay families for all their support. Please join us in wishing the OIIP cohort well where ever their journeys may take them next!

For more information about OIIP, how to become a homestay family, or how an OIIP intern can join your classroom, please visit the website.