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A three-year degree course in British Sign Language (BSL), which academics claim is the first of its kind in the UK, will take its first students this September.
(The Guardian, February 9th, 2006)
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A row over Gaelic threatens to split locals in an area known as the 'garden of Skye'.
(91福利社 News, February 9th, 2006)
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A guide is produced to help doctors moving into part of County Durham settle into their jobs.
(91福利社 News, February 7th, 2006)
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Movies seem so much more meaningful when their clunky dialogue and cliches are hidden.
(The Guardian, February 6th, 2006)
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Women's weakness for launching into a comedy accent mid-conversation has bothered me for some time, says Hadley Freeman.
(The Guardian, February 6th, 2006)
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Around 36 British Sign Language interpreters are to be trained in Wales - the biggest such scheme in the UK.
(91福利社 News, February 6th, 2006)
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Champions of the English language are about to mark a momentous point in its 1,500-year history - the creation of its one millionth word.
(The Times, February 5th, 2006)
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English outsiders are among a group of parents being accused of earing apart a small island community by calling for a ban on teaching in English at a primary school.
(The Times, February 3rd, 2006)
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A head teacher has said GCSEs and A-levels in Chinese are too difficult for children who are not native speakers.
(91福利社 News, February 27th, 2006)
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First ScotRail staff learn sign language to help deaf and hard of hearing passengers.
(91福利社 News, February 27th, 2006)
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Education campaigners welcome a school's decision to scrap controversial bilingual teaching lessons.
(91福利社 News, February 22nd, 2006)
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Britons and the Irish are bottom of the European league for speaking a second language, a new EC survey says.
(91福利社 News, February 21st, 2006)
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A school has ended its policy of teaching Turkish pupils in bi-lingual lessons because of poor results.
(91福利社 News, February 17th, 2006)
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Early-years experts are seriously concerned by the Government's plan to teach children in reception classes a system of phonics to the exclusion of other methods of learning to read.
(The Independent, February 16th 2006)
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The global dominance of English, which has brought economic and cultural benefit to Britain for the past 100 years, now poses a major threat to the UK's international standing, according to research published today.
(The Guardian, February 15th, 2006)
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Pupils should be taught other languages such as Mandarin in school, a report for the British Council says.
(91福利社 News, February 15th, 2006)
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Children will be able to sit national curriculum tests in their home language for the first time this year.
(The Independent, February 11th 2006)
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At last some good news on the state of language teaching in schools, with signs that the Government's primary languages strategy is taking off in earnest.
(The Independent, February 9th 2006)
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As part of our Write For Us series, full-time mother Catherine Poole, from Dunfermline, discusses the bad grammar that makes her cringe.
(91福利社 News, February 1st, 2006)
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