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Seeking data about multilingualism outside the US
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I'm in the process of writing a paper for a college class about the necessity of second-language education at the elementary school level, and there's a chunk of data that I'm sure must be out there somewhere, yet it continues to elude me... I would like to know what percentage of the population of other first-world countries can fluently speak more than one language, so I can compare that the US's pitiful 14%. If anyone out there in Usenet land knows where this data might be found, whether it b ...
Americans don't speak languages other than English?
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Sorry if off-topic but I came across this statement by a Dutchman and have just about had it. Please read and understand the following information: One-tenth of the population of the United States lives in the state of California. One-fourth of the population of California is foreign-born. Fully 50% of the residents of the county (my numbers may be a bit out of date but that's about 9 million people) of Los Angeles speak a language other than English at home. Those of us who spoke English at hom ...
Adopting of English proposed; irks many
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Adopting of English proposed; irks many THE WASHINGTON TIMES ATHENS ??” A proposal to adopt English as a second official language has split Greece into two warring camps, aroused national passions and exposed a weakness in the country's educational system. "Never," said Vyron Polydoras of the opposition New Democracy Party, who said, "Language is the most definitive factor and characteristic of our ethnic identity." Critics of the proposal claim that while English might be &q ...
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International Education and Foreign Languages: Keys to Securing This book can be purchased as a computer file. The format of the file is called a "PDF". To open, view and print the file, you must have third party software (e.g. Adobe Reader or XPDF) installed on your computer. Will my PDF be emailed to me? No. After buying the PDF, we will email you instructions on how to download the file from our Web site. The PDF file will not be emailed to you. See our Frequently Asked Questions for more information including: How long will it take to download a PDF file? What if there's a communication hiccup when I'm downloading a large file? ...
Language Education Associates - Foreign Language Education the Foreign Language Education the Easy Way Stephen D. Krashen This monograph outlines how a foreign language teaching program can help students acquire conversational language, and then move, in as painless a way as possible, to "academic" language, the use of language in areas such as school, business, politics and science. It attempts to overcome a problem all foreign language programs have: how to help students progress to advanced levels in the absence of native speakers. Published by Language Education Associates * 1998 ISBN 0-9652808-3-7 62pp softcover * 7" x 4.25" $5.95 Distributed by: ALTA ...
Multilingual Matters / Channel View Publications >> Journals About the journal Language & Education provides a forum for the discussion of recent topics and issues in the language disciplines which have an immediate bearing upon thought and practice in education. Articles draw from their subject matter important and well-communicated implications for one or more of the following: curriculum, pedagogy or evaluation in education. The task of the Journal is to encourage language specialists and language in education researchers to organise and present their material in such a way as to highlight its educational implications, thereby influencing educational theorists and practitioners and therefore educational outcomes ...
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English getting lost in translation in Philippines Such phrases, lifted from government-approved textbooks used in Filipino public schools, are reinforcing fears that crucial language skills are degenerating in a country that has long prided itself on having some of the world's best English speakers. At a time when English is widely considered an advantage in global competitiveness for any country, many fear this former U.S. colony is slipping.
NJ Governor sets up panel to help integrate undocumented aliens India Post News Service NEW JERSEY: New Jersey Governor Jon S. Corzine has established an advisory panel to map strategies on how the state can best address the estimated 400,000 undocumented immigrants living in New Jersey. Corzine signed an executive order Aug 7, to create a Blue Ribbon Advisory Panel on Immigrant Policy that will develop recommendations for a comprehensive and strategic statewide approach to successfully integrating immigrants in the State. The panel is expected to examine immigrant access to services such as health care, education, job training, social services, English classes and civics ...
Warning to Petronas: Stay out of Ogaden, and deal with the ONLF On the other hand, this part of the report offers a most convincing proof of the nature of the Abyssinian occupation of Ogaden; never did the Abyssinian monarchical (Haile Selassie), communist (Mengistu) and bogus-federal / republican (Meles Zenawi) rulers feel Ogaden as their own land; to them, it remained always a foreign territory where they imposed their rules, from where they tried to extract all possible natural resources, and to where they exported their racism, thuggish Amhara / Tigray administrators, and useless language.
As a result of the illegal and shady deals between the Ethiopian government and overseas companies such as; Chinese Zhongyuan Petroleum Exploration Bureau, Malaysian state-owned Petronas, Indian owned Gail India Limited and Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation Limited and Swedish Lundin Petroleum, the Ethiopian government forces evicted a large number of nomads from their ancestral grazing lands. Around the exploration sites the poor vegetation, which is essential for the nomads and their livestock was burned or removed.
Murder among the ruins: David Peace's novels draw on true crimes Min, min, min, min, miin. As David Peace and I talk about the onomatopoeic Japanese phrases the British crime writer uses in his latest novel, Tokyo Year Zero (Faber and Faber, 368 pp, 16.99 pounds), it seems fitting that our conversation should be accompanied by the sound of cicadas outside his office in northeast Tokyo on a midsummer's day. Unable to find work in recession-hit Britain, he ended up teaching English in Istanbul and didn't pick up a pen in anger again until he landed a job as a teacher in Japan in 1994. Even then, the scars ...
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The Sad State of British Education I just came across some British textbooks that were recently passed onto me for our children to use. We are living in Germany but home educating them in English. One of them was called “Problems in Physics” and it is already sadly outdated - every problem has a math component. My dh and I had a good laugh about that - when our children eventually do their GCSE’s using these textbooks for revision, they will be in for a surprise, I’m sure.
CNN Education News Divided court rejects school diversity plans Study: Publicly funded NCLB tutoring pays off Report urges states to improve teacher qualifications Boys' long journeys reflect quest for knowledge, equality The 'new' NEA: Reading gets bigger School apologizes for censoring gay kiss High Court rules on 'Bong Hits 4 Jesus'
Which would be easier for you to memorize?1.) The Which would be easier for you to memorize?1.) The entire New York telephone book2.) A small nursery rhymeIf you picked #1, please go away!Scientific studies have shown that we learn best by absorbing small morsels of information, applying them in a practical manner, then building on what we know. As we add more chunks of information our minds correlate, collate, and link everything, referring back to previously learned facts to form a comprehensive sphere of knowledge.What does this mean to you?Don't tackle a huge book of foreign language grammar or prose ...