{"id":44299,"date":"2019-07-15T15:22:34","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T13:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.steinmuehle.de\/blog\/2019\/07\/15\/the-u-s-exchange-program-enhances-language-skills\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T15:36:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T13:36:03","slug":"the-u-s-exchange-program-enhances-language-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/blog\/2019\/07\/15\/the-u-s-exchange-program-enhances-language-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"The U.S. exchange program enhances language skills"},"content":{"rendered":"

The exchange program with the U.S. is a well-established tradition at Steinm\u00fchle. This spring, it was organized by English teacher Eva Stelz, with her colleague Rosie Boebel contributing her many years of experience. Eberhard Wieth accompanied the group on the trip to the U.S. as the second teacher traveling with them. <\/p>\n

First, the Steinm\u00fchle students were in Goshen, where they accompanied their exchange partners to class. \u201cEveryone got a taste of typical high school life,\u201d reports Eva Stelz. In the third week, the group visited Chicago and New York City. Of course, a souvenir photo in front of Central Park was a must. The Americans\u2019 return visit to Steinm\u00fchle took place from June 5 to 19. The itinerary included, among other things, a trip to the Rhine. <\/p>\n

The trip boosted motivation to use the language<\/strong><\/p>\n

There\u2019s no doubt that the students were able to gain a wide range of experiences through the exchange. Eva Stelz: \u201cAbove all, however, they were able to greatly improve their language skills, since they spent every day with their host families and had to speak English there. It was clear that they can now speak much more fluently and that their motivation has generally increased thanks to the wonderful experiences they had in an English-speaking country.\u201d <\/p>\n

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The exchange program with the U.S. is a well-established tradition at Steinm\u00fchle. This spring, it was organized by English teacher Eva Stelz, with her colleague Rosie Boebel contributing her many years of experience. Eberhard Wieth accompanied the group on the trip to the U.S. as the second teacher traveling with them. First, the Steinm\u00fchle students […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":44306,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,85,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-languages-international-affairs","category-news","category-steinmuehle-on-the-road"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48818,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44299\/revisions\/48818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}