Housed in the College of Arts and Sciences at Case Western Reserve University, the Multilingual Writing and Speaking Center is a dynamic hub for advancing multilingual communication skills. Located on the first floor of Crawford Hall in partnership with Writing@CWRU, the center offers individualized support to help students strengthen their writing and speaking proficiency across diverse languages.
The center is made possible through the generous support of the Eirik Børve Fund for Foreign Language Instruction and the vision of Thalia Dorwick, PhD (FSM ’66; GRS ’73, romance languages)—a publisher and author of many language textbooks. Dorwick has long championed the importance of strong grammar instruction and the integration of writing and speaking skills in second-language education. Her conversations with Damaris Puñales, PhD, of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and with Kim Emmons, PhD, of the Department of English, were the initial inspiration for the creation of this center, which has been brought to life with the support of the Office of the Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences, as well as the work of Ching-Hsuan Wu, PhD, Børve Endowed Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures.