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Auxiliares de Conversación Program Webinar

January 22, 2021

Auxiliares de Conversación Program Webinar

Auxiliares de Conversación Program

The Auxiliares de Conversación program is a program run the by the Spanish government’s Ministry of Education that pays US college graduates around $1000/month, depending on the local cost of living, to be an English language resource in a Spanish K-12 public school.

The Department of Spanish and Portuguese has had dozens of graduates participate in this program over the last 10 years and those who have lived with Spanish-speakers during their 9 month term have returned with high levels of language proficiency.

A webinar was held on January 13th that featured a presentation from Pilar Lara Burgos, Education Advisor from the Spanish Embassy, on the status of the program for the 2021-2022 school year and asked questions to a panel of returned former OSU Spanish majors and minors who participated in the Auxiliares program and who are now pursuing interpreting-translating (Ally Goldman), bilingual speech-language pathology (Meag Horn), bilingual K-12 teaching (Nicolette Leon) and medical school (Katy McFarland).

The Zoom recording of the webinar can be found here.