Category: News

West Nipissing council undertakes a major overhaul of its bilingualism by-law

Big changes are coming to the Municipality of West Nipissing and its bilingualism by-law. By June all municipal forms for the public will be made available in both English and French. The municipality’s website will also be redesigned by June and will contain information in both official languages. Other things like news releases, social media posts, public notices as well as advertising and marketing will be done in both languages. The change is the result of a complaint from Denis Labelle who told the municipality there are areas of the current by-law that are not being followed. Learn more about this topic by reading on MyWestNipissingNow.

English language: We’re going through changes

The times they are a-changing and language is a-changing with them. Since languages are organic creations of human culture, as that culture changes so too do they. The language used by Shakespeare is so different to modern day English that secondary school students usually reach for their dictionaries. That’s quite old, but even texts from the Victorian or Edwardian era sound very strange to a modern ear. A lot of people ejaculate in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes novels, yet the modern meaning of the word gives the whole thing a comical feel. Learn more about this topic by reading on TheBogotaPost.

Some people pick up languages like colds, or sunburns—without effort, through simple immersion in the atmosphere. Others can’t hear the word ‘conjugate’ without flashing back, in shame, to the classrooms where they failed, so long ago, to shake the curse of monolingualism.

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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 Metropolitan School District of Lawrence Township has longest-standing dual language program in the state with Forest Glen Elementary, which opened in 1993. Now, the township is continuing its efforts in implementing dual language programs throughout the district.

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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.

State government would stick to the two-language formula is expected to bring to an end the raging controversy over the National Education Policy but a perusal of the State’s history reveals that the language question has always been a sensitive subject.

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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.

Teachers who understand the trauma-informed, wellness approach can have a profound impact on adult students affected by trauma—loss, domestic violence, childhood abuse, racism, natural disaster, and ongoing poverty. Learn more about this topic by reading on Patch.

Are English language learners acquiring the skills necessary to become literate in the English language by the end of high school? National achievement data indicate that the answer is no. As a result, students who are ELLs will struggle to leverage reading and writing as threshold skills for college, career, and everyday life. Learn more about this topic by reading on SmartBrief.

In what language do you feel? To put it differently, in what language are you spontaneously inclined to express your deepest feelings? I need not elaborate on the importance of these considerations in these times of mounting horror, anxiety and sorrow. Learn more about this topic by reading on the DailyNation.

Sitting in Judy Oster’s classes feels like a homecoming for anyone who loves literature. Imagine reading, exploring and discussing Austen, Wharton, Faulkner, Camus, Oz, Roth, Dostoevsky, Shakespeare and more. Imagine delving into the art of reading poetry and listening to the elegance of Frost, Yeats, Dickinson, Hopkins, T.S. Eliot and others. Learn more about this topic by reading on JPost.

Cloud Nine Education Group Ltd is part of a shift in the teaching of ESL (English as a second language) into the digital world with its cloud-based platform used as a tool by teachers in the classroom. The curriculum is technologically advanced to meet the needs of increasingly mobile students. Tablets replace textbooks and the course content includes instructional videos and internet links which learners use to supplement in-class studies.

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