For those of you who don’t know, we’ve been mixing it up this quarter in the CMWR’s Book Club. Rather than read a single book throughout the quarter with our group of multilingual participants, we’ve been reading a different piece of flash fiction each … Continue reading
Michael Jackson told us to dance, and I’m here to remind us. This week in the CMWR’s Conversation and Culture we talked a lot about body language. What does it mean when Americans wink at you? Well, that depends. Are … Continue reading
Staring down a hallway, in your jammies[1], you have to pee. At age 10, this is the ultimate test of courage. The path to the bathroom is clear, and you know exactly where the light switch is. Listen. Nothing. Now … Continue reading
As many of you may be aware, Chicago winters can be…well, difficult. Cold. Windy. Snowy. Windy and snowy at the same time, even. With this in mind, we at the Collaborative for Multilingual Writing and Research thought that there was … Continue reading
Last week, we at the Collaborative for Multilingual Writing and Research hosted a workshop on classroom strategies for learners of English as an additional language. We realized that a lot of the things that we talked about in the workshop—titled … Continue reading
Looking for a fun, catchy way to learn language? Listen to music! On Monday, October 22nd, the CMWR hosted our quarterly workshop on precisely this idea. Participants were greeted by Lady Gaga belting out “Edge of Glory,” and over the … Continue reading
On Monday, October 2, several international students joined the CMWR on our Walk & Talk to Pilsen, Chicago’s famous Latino-American neighborhood. The English Language Academy treated us all to a walking tour of Pilsen’s many beautiful murals and mosaics, both … Continue reading
The above, which reads ‘watashi,’ means simply “I.” It took my colleague and I two weeks to appreciate this, and we have far from mastered its use. This, of course, is only “I” as expressed in Hiragana, one of Japan’s … Continue reading
Conversation appointments come with a host of issues that tutors who primarily tutor might not have even considered. I can confidently say that I’ve had more conversation appointments in the past two weeks than I’ve had over the course of … Continue reading
The CMWR’s Friday Forum is up and running for Winter Quarter, and this conversation-based group reads through a short text on different aspects of American culture and analyzes it together. Last week we read an article from DePaul’s student newspaper … Continue reading