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One in eight pupils at primary schools in England speak English as a second language, official statistics show.
(91福利社 News, September 29th, 2006)
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What happens when an area finds itself part of the revolution in migrant workers arriving from Eastern Europe?
(91福利社 News, September 28th, 2006)
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A new phrase book is designed by a Herefordshire man to help police officers communicate with foreign nationals.
(91福利社 News, September 27th, 2006)
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A campaign to encourage more people to study languages at university is being launched in England.
(91福利社 News, September 26th, 2006)
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Foreign language skills are declining in the UK, prompting a drive to encourage more students. So why are we bad at learning lingo?
(91福利社 News, September 26th, 2006)
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Europe may be expanding to the East, but Brussels is desperately searching for interpreters from the West after Irish became the European Parliament's latest official language.
(The Times, September 23rd, 2006)
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An EU scheme to teach people foreign languages while they travel is starting in Lithuania's capital, Vilnius.
(91福利社 News, September 20th, 2006)
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What is wrong with the following sentence? "Rabbit Angstrom trotted down the alleyway holding his jacket like an envelope." When I first read it, I was genuinely baffled. But envelopes don't wear jackets, I thought. Oh no, what the author means is that Rabbit is carrying his jacket in the same way as he'd carry an envelope.
(The Telegraph, September 18th, 2006)
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At last, some encouraging news about modern foreign language teaching. A new approach to it - being pioneered by the Oxford and Cambridge and Royal Society of Art (OCR) exam board - has had considerable success in encouraging children at primary school to start learning the subject.
(The Independent, September 14th, 2006)
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Standards in English among 14-year-olds at secondary school have fallen, test results for 600,000 pupils published yesterday show.
(The Independent, September 14th, 2006)
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The Government has ordered a review of its controversial decision to scrap compulsory language lessons for 14- to 16-year-olds.
(The Independent, September 14th, 2006)
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Ministers are reportedly rethinking their decision to make language study in England optional from age 14.
(91福利社 News, September 14th, 2006)
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If you are of the view that swearing is both big and clever, I commend to you Big Ron Manager on Sky One, where the liberal use of the F word makes Goodfellas look like Bob The Builder.
(The Guardian, September 11th, 2006)
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The Royal Hospital in Belfast launches a multi-lingual admissions for patients who do not speak English.
(91福利社 News, September 11th, 2006)
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"Au revoir, 脿 lundi," one four-year-old tells her new friend in the playground, as the opening week at Britain's first bilingual state school draws to an end.
(The Independent, September 9th, 2006)
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Pupils who text-message may not be at risk of becoming poor readers and writers, researchers say.
(91福利社 News, September 8th, 2006)
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Instead of commuting, non-office dwellers get a sense of forward movement by 'buying the papers' and 'filling the bird-feeder'.
(The Independent, September 7th, 2006)*
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Swahili, Yoruba and Somali are now available to read on the internet based encyclopaedia, Wikipedia. Will this help preserve African languages?
(91福利社 News, September 7th, 2006)
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A building company apologises for putting up a bilingual sign in Aberdeenshire in English - and Welsh.
(91福利社 News, September 6th, 2006)
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Two websites, thought to be the first of their type in Scotland, aim to improve web access for sign-language users.
(91福利社 News, September 5th, 2006)
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