Academic writing will probably be very different to writing that you have produced before. There are very specific conventions, characteristics and rules that need to be adhered to. They convey ...

No one is a native speaker of academic English. As the formal written and spoken language of classrooms and professional workplaces, academic English often bears little resemblance to the social, ...

Academic texts are often not easy to understand. They can be incredibly dense and full of complicated language that reads as if it’s been put through a thesaurus numerous times. And to a certain ...

As far back as George Bernard Shaw’s fictional professor Henry Higgins, language experts have argued that low-income students who learn to switch from speaking a dialect to using standard English have ...

The course provides students from a range of educational backgrounds/cultures and language settings with the academic language skills needed for final year undergraduate and postgraduate study. It ...

English Conversation Hour is an opportunity for all students, faculty and staff of the CWRU community interested in strengthening their proficiency in conversational English as well as those already ...

In order to fulfill the language core in a modern foreign language other than the ones offered in the department, you must submit one of the following to the Associate Chair: You will then need to ...

Students must demonstrate proficiency in a world language other than English equal to a fourth-semester course level through one of the following options: Option 1: Complete a fourth semester college ...