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The International English Training for Adults Program is an intensive ESL (English as a Second Language) program for foreign students. Students in the program take 18 hours of classes per week, including Conversation Partners, a 3-hour course designed to give students an opportunity to practice using English with Americans in a structured, low-risk environment. Students meet for 1 or 2 hours a week with volunteer conversation partners, using suggested discussion topics for which students must prepare. Students are expected to keep a journal in which they write about what they talked about, what they learned, and what language problems they encountered during each meeting with their partners. They also tape record each meeting and write weekly in their journals about what they learn from listening to their tapes. A study was conducted with the Lancaster-Lebanon (Pennsylvania) International English Training for Adults Program, in Millersville, Pennsylvania, to improve the design of th