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Blackfoot Morning News
April 22, 2018
"For the English Language Program, it doesn't matter what language they grew up with," said Kathy Lawhon, who works in the District's administration offices. "We've had kids who were Japanese, for example. Most of the students in these programs grew up speaking Spanish though in our school district,Ãâà...
Wanted in Rome
April 20, 2018
English language cinema in Rome 19-25 April. From 19 Apr 2018 to 25 Apr 2018. Facebook Ãâ÷ Twitter Ãâ÷ English language cinema in Rome 19-25 April. Rome cinemas showing movies in their original English language versions from 19-25 April. LOVING PABLO. LOVING PABLO Official Trailer (2018) JavierÃâà...
Xinhua
April 20, 2018
MANILA, April 20 (Xinhua) -- Filipino English language teachers Cresencia Mapalad and others are hopeful that they could land teaching jobs in China. Mapalad told Xinhua in an interview that she got excited when President Rodrigo Duterte announced that China has opened its doors to Filipino EnglishÃâà...
Android Authority (blog)
April 19, 2018
A recent YouTube study of 2,000 British adults centered on the state of the English language. The overwhelming majority of respondents think the English language is in decline, and that Emojis are partially to blame. In somewhat related news, YouTube has seen a giant surge in popularity in English tutorial videos over theÃâà...
South China Morning Post
April 13, 2018
I am writing to voice my thoughts on the English language subject in Hong Kong's educational system. As many people can tell, local schools are not teaching the English language, but English exam skills. In an effort to ensure that pupils get a good grade in the public examination, schools have becomeÃâà...
South China Morning Post
April 12, 2018
It is said that, after Cantonese, the most popular restaurants in Hong Kong are Japanese. We have our favourite sushi bars and look out for new izakayas. And we have in our repertoire words for an impressive range of Japanese food and drink: in the Oxford English Dictionary, of the 525 entries ofÃâà...
Publishers Weekly
April 6, 2018
Uproarious and ingenious, Burrows's Dictionary Stories is more than 150 shorts composed entirely from example sentences taken from 12 different dictionaries. Burrows crafts tense postapocalyptic scenarios, moody noir, fantasy, erotic science fiction, and “the double life of a freelance secret agent.” HereÃâà...
Utah Business
April 4, 2018
Salt Lake City—inWhatLanguage, a leading localization and translation technology provider, announced the first recipients of their 2018 English Language Learners Grants. Through the company's pledge to utilize some of their profits-for-purpose, inWhatLanguage awarded 13 public and private educationÃâà...
The Conversation UK
April 4, 2018
English has achieved prime status by becoming the most widely spoken language in the world – if one disregards proficiency – ahead of Mandarin Chinese and Spanish. English is spoken in 101 countries, while Arabic is spoken in 60, French in 51, Chinese in 33, and Spanish in 31. From one small island,Ãâà...
AEC News Today
April 4, 2018
01:42 | Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha called for those criticising the delay in the general election and restricted political space in Thailand to stop, saying their actions cause chaos to arise. 02:44 | Deputy spokesperson for the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), Colonel SirichanÃâà...
bdnews24.com
April 4, 2018
Congratulating the officers on the completion of their training, High Commissioner Blake said: “I am delighted to salute the personal achievement and commitment shown by the officers of the Special Branch who have successfully completed their English Language Training Course. “This is a great exampleÃâà...
Study International News
April 4, 2018
Taking an English language exam can be pretty daunting – even if you are confident in your language abilities – so scrubbing up on your knowledge is crucial. And if you are hoping to study in the UK, US, Australia or a handful of other English-speaking countries, and do not come from one yourself, you willÃâà...
India Today
April 4, 2018
A hundred years ago, in 1918, ended the First World War. A few months after that, in a diary entry dated September 10, 1918, the term entered English language. We didn't wait for the Second World War to coin the word "First" before the only World War the world had seen at the time. Though it was calledÃâà...
AEC News Today
April 4, 2018
00:42 | Deputy prime minister, General Chatchai Sarikulya, has visited the Command Center to Combat Illegal Fishing (CCCIF) to ensure its preparedness ahead of the arrival of European Union (EU) officials who will be inspecting Thailand's progress on the elimination of Illegal, unreported andÃâà...
Global Voices Online
March 31, 2018
This story by Nicola Prentis for GlobalPost originally appeared on PRI.org on March 28, 2018, and is republished here as part of a partnership between PRI and Global Voices. The teacher holds up a pen in the first lesson and says, “It's my pen.” The students, English language learners who could be anyÃâà...
The Hans India
March 31, 2018
Hyderabad: Department of English, GITAM deemed to be University, Hyderabad is going to organise a two -day Faculty Development Program on 'Current Methods and Approaches in the Teaching of English Language and Literature' at its campus on April 2 and 3. It will be organised in association withÃâà...
Courier-Gazette & Camden Herald
March 31, 2018
In addition to English language, students may receive tutoring to prepare for the Citizenship Test, Driver's License Exam, TOEFL, and High School Equivalency Tests. Workforce Training and College Transitions programs are also offered through Adult Education. International snacks and refreshments willÃâà...
Education Week (blog)
March 30, 2018
Combining English-language development with math instruction, using students' home languages and backgrounds as assets, and providing access to advanced courses are among practices that can boost English-langauge learners' achievement and test scores in math, according to a new report fromÃâà...
Nevada Appeal
March 30, 2018
Anyone who wants to help break the language barrier on a local level can by teaching a second language to adults who are waiting to learn how to speak, read and write in English. A free tutor orientation and training workshop is being held from 2:30 to 3:45 p.m. April 14 in the Pine Nut Room of theÃâà...
AEC News Today
March 30, 2018
00:45 | Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha has urged the rice policy and management committee to adhere to the government's rice stockpile management policy and to ensure that the sale of its stockpiled rice is in line with true market demand. Thailand currently holds two million tons of stockpiledÃâà...
PRI
March 29, 2018
Globally, close to 1 billion people are learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL), and all of them encounter binary gender pronouns from the earliest lessons. It's a grammar point covered at the beginner level. Making observations about binary gender appears in exams for young children withÃâà...
KUOW News and Information
March 29, 2018
Did you get a little grossed out reading that? If so, you're not alone. Moist is one of the most hated words in the American English language. But why do we have such strong feelings about an ostensibly neutral word? Bill Radke talks with lexicographer Kory Stamper about how the words we use signal whoÃâà...
Study International News
March 29, 2018
Twenty percent of the world's total population communicate in English. It is, by far, the most studied language on the planet, confirmed as the language of business and earning its name as the global lingua franca. With the Harvard Business Review citing English as the fastest-spreading tongue, theÃâà...
Falls Church News Press
March 23, 2018
St. Mark's English as a Second Language (ESL) Ministry is seeking new students and volunteers to participate in the upcoming Spring 2018 Term, starting Tuesday, April 10. The ministry's goal is to “Welcome the Stranger” and provide a program where adults from all ethnic and religious backgrounds canÃâà...
Quartz
March 23, 2018
The British government should fix a date by which all residents in the UK should be able to speak English, says Louise Casey, who wrote a report for the government on integration in 2016. A common language, she argued, would help to “heal rifts across Britain.” Casey first recommended that theÃâà...
Arizona Daily Star
March 23, 2018
The bill has support from several local school districts that hope to expand their dual language programs, but have been hindered by state mandates requiring English-language learners to become orally proficient in English before enrolling in a dual language program, making it hard for schools to findÃâà...
Pacific Standard
March 22, 2018
Baran is herself an immigrant who arrived in America from Poland as a teenager, speaking barely any English at the time. Now, in her scholarly work, she studies the experience of living life through a "second language"—a complexity that people of traditionally non-English-speaking parts of the globalizedÃâà...
The Japan Times
March 21, 2018
PARIS – The English language is too dominant in Brussels, especially with Britain soon to exit the European Union, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday as he vowed to fight for a wider use of French in EU institutions and abroad. There are some 274 million French speakers worldwide,Ãâà...
DailyO
March 21, 2018
If English is mainly a functional language, a tool, what about the talk of English as a way of life, a language to think in? There exists a tribe among us, as I contended in my 2006 book2 on the social life of English in India, that lives and breathes, exclusively, English. Children of interlingual marriages in urbanÃâà...
The PIE News
March 21, 2018
“Over these last years, Malta has become well regarded internationally for its expertise in international and English language education with an ever-increasing number of students from various countries, including Japan,” Spiteri said. He added that Malta has benefited from the social, cultural andÃâà...
Chalkbeat Indiana
March 20, 2018
Excel Center-University Heights and Christel House DORS South, charter schools serving adult students, saw their enrollment of English language learners jump to 44 percent and 63 percent of all students, respectively. The campuses are less than two miles apart. The south side neighborhood they serveÃâà...
PEOPLE.com
March 19, 2018
The bachata crooner spoke to PEOPLE CHICA about recording new songs in English and revealed the mainstream artists who have influenced him. “For a while now, I have felt this need to pay homage to the music that I used to listen to when I grew up in New York,” says the 28-year-old singer ofÃâà...
The Guardian
March 19, 2018
... to speak English, 14 March) is that when his mother learned English there was a fully functioning LEA adult education service which trained and employed hundreds of volunteers to work alongside professional teachers in providing English courses for all residents for whom it was not their first language.
Inside Higher Ed
March 13, 2018
Is your first language English? If so, imagine that you are now required to write about your research using only Spanish or Japanese. Many scholars around the world are facing a parallel situation, with pressures to publish their work in English increasing markedly in the past two decades. Indeed, manyÃâà...
The Local Germany
March 12, 2018
“False friends can occur at all language learning levels and are hard to change,” Ciaran Fleck, director of English studies at Fokus Sprachen und Seminare language school, tells The Local. Words or expressions that look or sound similar to those in one's native language but have a very different meaningÃâà...
BBC News
March 12, 2018
The government should set a target date for "everybody in the country" to speak English to encourage integration, a former official has said. Dame Louise Casey, who wrote a report for the government on integration in 2016, said a "common language" would help to "heal rifts across Britain". She also calledÃâà...
AEC News Today
March 12, 2018
00:44 | Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn attended the final day of the 'Love and Warmth at Winter's End' festival on Sunday, where she visited various exhibitions on the works of the late King Rama V and laid bricks before his statue. 01:42 | Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha has reported thatÃâà...
Varsity Online
March 9, 2018
By some remarkable convergence of time and place, it is the language that I grew up speaking at home. I speak in English, think in English, write in English, pray in English and rejoice in English. It is the language that rolls most naturally off my tongue. Yet, it was during a particularly frustrating lecture onÃâà...
FE News
March 9, 2018
The British Accreditation Council (BAC) are set to launch the new International English Language Provider scheme (IELP) at a prestigious event hosted at the House of Commons in Westminster today (9 Mar). The new scheme is open to international English language providers who are based outside ofÃâà...
Quartz
March 2, 2018
California, Texas, and New Mexico have long been the most multilingual states in the US. In those places, over half of kids aged eight or younger have a parent who speaks a language other than English at home. Other states are catching up, though. Between 1980 and 2015, the proportion of dualÃâà...
FE News
March 2, 2018
Events will be held all across the country next week to celebrate the fact that over 20,000 non-English speakers have improved their English language skills, reducing isolation and connecting with their communities. They've been supported through the English My Way programme, a community-basedÃâà...
Morocco World News
March 2, 2018
Rabat – France is stepping up efforts to improve French student's English language skills to help them “act and move in globalization,” according to French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe. In a tweet posted on February 23, the French official wrote: “ To master English, is to better control one's future.”.
Lehigh University News
March 2, 2018
Students learning English as a second language who also have special needs are more likely to fall between the cracks of elementary school education, finds researcher Sara Kangas in a paper to be recognized March 28 by the International Research Foundation for English Language Education.
AEC News Today
March 2, 2018
00:45 | King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun, Princess Bajrakitiyabha, and Princess Sirivannavari Nariratana yesterday made merit to the Emerald Buddha in the Grand Palace to mark this year's Makha Bucha Day. The royal ceremony for Makha Bucha Day was initiated during the reign ofÃâà...
Daily Times
March 2, 2018
LAHORE: US Consul General to Lahore Elizabeth Kennedy Trudeau welcomed over 100 new students from Lahore and Sialkot to the U.S. State Department's English Works Program here on Thursday. Chairman Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority (TEVTA) Irfan Qaiser Sheikh alsoÃâà...
Language Magazine
March 2, 2018
National Geographic Learning (NGL), a Cengage company, has announced the release of Learn English with TED Talks, an app developed in partnership with TED designed for students enrolled in programs to learn English as a second or foreign language. The Learn English with TED Talks app givesÃâà...
The PIE News
March 2, 2018
“Full-immersion coupled with quality teaching remains the best way to acquire a language; however, in keeping with our mission to 'help students succeed in a global community', we want to provide students around the world with an opportunity to study English the EC way,” Mangion said in a statement.
The Guardian
March 1, 2018
... … we have a small favour to ask. More people are reading the Guardian than ever but advertising revenues across the media are falling fast. And unlike many news organisations, we haven't put up a paywall – we want to keep our journalism as open as we can. So you can see why we need to ask forÃâà...
The Guardian
February 27, 2018
In China last month, Theresa May attended the launch of the British Council's English is Great campaign, intended to boost interest and fluency in our national language. This might sound like Donald Trump's notorious “Make America great again”, but comes in fact from a stronger position. Beyond doubtÃâà...
The Copenhagen Post
December 31, 1999
At some universities, such as at Copenhagen Business School and ITU in Copenhagen, English has superseded Danish as the dominant language of use. The same is the case at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), where all graduates have been taught in English for the past decade, and it's noÃâà...
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