Category: Student Work
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UMKC Students Share Stories about their Homes: ALI Service Learning
Since fall of 2021, the Applied Language Institute has been encouraging students to go out into the Kansas City community and practice their English through service. Collectively, among staff, students and faculty, the ALI has completed over 600 hours of community service at various organizations. Some of those organizations are Harvesters, Pet Resource Center of Kansas…
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Fall 2024 Student Work – What makes our students homes unique?
In Kate DeBenedetti’s level 3 course, students wrote essays on the unique features of their home countries: Japan, Taiwan, China, Mexico, and Saudi Arabia.
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2024 Poster Session!
In November the ALI had its annual poster session. Check out the posters presented on the countries our students hail from!
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Similarities between Kansas City and Kuwait City
Please enjoy the third in our series of Comparison and Contrast essays created by our Level 3 Writing & Grammar students during the Spring 2023 term. What places are different between Kansas City and Kuwait City? Visiting Kansas City, and Kuwait City can be fascinating, such as malls. There are many places to travel in…
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Unique Traffic Differences: Kansas City and Tokyo
Our Level 3 students produced some great work this semester! This post focuses on the similarities and differences between Kansas City and Tokyo traffic. While the distance between Tokyo and Kansas City is approximately 6000 miles (9600 kilometers), these two cities are quite similar.the historickansascity.org said, “Last decades of the 19th century were a…
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Comparing Beijing and Kansas City
We’re always excited to share great examples of our students’ work. In this post, one of our Level 3 students has written an comparison and contrast essay discussing Beijing, China, and Kansas City, Missouri. Different cities have different life experiences, and two cities half a world away – Beijing and Kansas City must also have…
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Cultural Presentation
This semester, one of our Level 3 students completed a cultural presentation on his home country of China. Check out his work below!
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The Best Island You Must Visit
Chia-Ju (RuRu) Lin Writing & Grammar Exercise Taiwan is the best place for anyone who wants to take an unforgettable vacation. First, I would say the food in Taiwan is the best in the world. If you go to the night market in Taiwan, you will find many kinds of delicious food and snacks. The…
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Beyond Miles & Roses
by Leonardo Braga Vasquez Fiction story Level 4 student I had thought that nothing could drive me into such horrible grief until I lost her. I was sitting on the right row of seats of the bus when she caught my attention. She introduced herself and so did I. We started talking so friendly as…
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My Favorite Holiday
This composition by one of our Level 1 students describes her favorite holiday, Eid. My favorite holiday is Eid. I like it because I buy a new dress and I get a gift from my mother and father, and I gave them a gift. I celebrate with my family and my friends. I eat chocolate…
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