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Retired university professor Margaret Chan made what I thought was a very curious observation – that English has now become Singapore’s mother tongue alongside the ethnic dialects. A mother tongue can be understood as a language that one is proficient in and comfortable with using. Learn more about this topic by reading on StraitsTimes.
A Japan-run language school that saw its stock soar almost 12-fold last year is planning to expand into new business areas as its chief executive officer tries to keep the rally alive.
RareJob Inc., a Tokyo-based online English conversation school, or eikaiwa, that uses teachers in the Philippines, will focus on areas including leadership training and job placement, said Gaku Nakamura, the company’s founder and chief executive officer, in an interview. Nakamura said one of his goals was to boost the company’s market value to ¥100 billion ($922 million) from its current level of about ¥25 billion.
Learn more about this topic by reading on JapanTimes.
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Physical contact, meat balls, parent-teacher relationship and hours spent in the class room. These are merely some of the differences between teaching in Denmark and in Thailand. Read about two young teachers’ road from Northern Denmark to Bangkok and their change in teaching lifestyle.
Learn more about this topic by reading on ScandAsia.
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A latest study released by Advance Market Analytics on Global English Language Training Market covering key business segments and wide scope geographies to get deep dive analysed market data. The study is a perfect balance bridging both qualitative and quantitative information of English Language Training market. The study provides historical data (i.e. Volume** & Value) from 2014 to 2018 and forecasted till 2026*. Some are the key & emerging players that are part of coverage and have being profiled are Linguatronics (United States), Rosetta Stone (United States), Sanako (Finland), SANS (United States), Edusoft (Israel), OKpanda (United States), Sanoma (Finland), Voxy (United States), Atlas language school (Ireland) and Berlitz (United States). Learn more about this topic by reading on OpenPR.
Is this the most powerful word in the English language?
The most commonly-used word in English might only have three letters – but it packs a punch. ‘The’. It’s omnipresent; we can’t imagine English without it. But it’s not much to look at. It isn’t descriptive, evocative or inspiring. Technically, it’s meaningless. And yet this bland and innocuous-seeming word could be one of the most potent in the English language. Learn more about this topic by reading on BBC.
Dual language program in Hammond to help make students bilingual, biliterate, bicultural
Students gathered on the floor of Alejandra Morales’ kindergarten classroom, loudly repeating after her as she stood in front of them reading a sentence in Spanish.
“Nadar” they all said together as they moved their arms out in front of them to mimic the action swimming — the movement assisting them in the memorization of the word. Learn more about this topic by reading on ChicagoTribune.
After reading “Learning an L2 in a troubled world” you can check important issues for ESL teachers on the section PDFs, and visit my YouTube channel.
The Elbert Files: Use and misuse of words
Late in life, I find I’ve become a language snob. People who know my history will find that hard to believe. I’m the guy who flunked freshman English and who once wrote that a piece of stolen jewelry was a “neckless.”
If it hadn’t been for spell-check, my career in newspapers would have ended long ago. I’m not the kind of language enforcer who gets upset when someone ends a sentence with a preposition, which almost everyone does nowadays. Learn more about this topic by reading on BusinessRecord.
New Year, new language
If you’re looking for a showstopping New Year’s resolution, toss those gym shoes aside and pick up a new language in 2020. Being multilingual doesn’t just help your memory(link is external), make you more competitive in the job market, and help you impress at the dinner table. It can also help you connect with the people around you. Speaking to someone in their own language is a beautiful way to forge a new relationship; it can help to put people at ease and make them feel understood and respected. Learn more about this topic by reading on QueensJournal.
Amidst the disorienting effects of the coronavirus pandemic, many seemingly smaller personal tragedies have gone unnoticed. These encompass a number of harsh economic blows, such as nearly 110,000 small American businesses shutting down, or even closer to home – the ESL (English as a Second Language) department of Queens College closing its doors. Learn more about this topic by reading on TheKnightNews.
Only 3 percent of English language learners in New Mexico’s public schools passed the standardized proficiency exam in 2019. In 2017, less than 1 percent of students passed. The previous year, it was 17 percent. Learn more about this topic by reading on eu.lcsun-news.