Less than one percent of Americans can speak another language well enough to hold a conversation.
And yet every year, hundreds of college students for whom English is a second language come to the Northland to go to school: to listen to lectures in English, take tests in English and write papers in English.
The challenge is twofold: how to communicate your knowledge of biology, for example, when you understand the subject matter but your grasp of English may be incomplete ... and how to show who you really are to the people around you.
For more information on the Writer's Workshop, click the link or email Mia O'Brien.
