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Second Language is the result of the producer and DJ’s fascination with language and translation, a byproduct of picking up German.

He’s been communicating his ideas through sound for some eight years or so, breaking through with off-techno 12-inches for quirky, peripherally club-oriented labels the Trilogy Tapes and Whities.

Writing on the backburner and DJing paying the bills, he has one of electronica’s more peculiar and curious albums to show for his transition to the studio.

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Human language is a means of communication which is not witnessed to the same extent in much of the rest of the animal kingdom.

It allows usr an intimate understanding of each other, enabling an individual to express emotions that physical movement is incapable of conveying and without language, our species would not be nearly as advanced as it is.

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Mary Ann Shea reflects on her career promoting student-centered teaching and learning at CU.  From 1986 to 2020, FTEP offered faculty programming centered on evidence-based teaching practices while developing an understanding of how students learn best to support student success. CU Boulder’s new Center for Teaching & Learning will continue FTEP’s mission of supporting faculty in the classroom.

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Toronto-based education technology company has a suite of products designed to teach English to a global population.

Novel speech recognition technology allows users to analyze pronunciation and simulate real-life conversation scenarios.

Major strategic partnerships in South America and China, which are its main target markets.

What Lingo Media does: Lingo Media is an education technology company which develops English language learning products to support learners — from classroom to boardroom

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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.

We all know that mother tongue is best if we want to understand the complicated concepts, explain difficult ideas or want to express true feelings. A lot of nations, mainly the nations which were colonized, in Asia and Africa, continue to use the language of colonial powers, even after independence.

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Barbara Nolan says she is grateful to have survived attempts by Canada’s Indian residential school system to take her language away from her. 

Nolan was born and raised in South Bay on the Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory on Manitoulin Island. She didn’t know a word of English until she was sent to residential school in Spanish, Ont. when she was five years old. She spent four years in Spanish until she went back to Wikwemikong where she was bused to school.

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Martin Johnes, one of our leading historians, made a passionate plea in these pages for greater understanding about the role of communities in the historical decline of the Welsh Language.

He reminded us that the whole question of decline is more than history -it is “an emotive topic”. He highlighted that English migration forces were the most powerful change agents in the decline – much more than the official language of school instruction being changed to English.

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Growing opportunities for foreign students in Taiwan and Taiwanese going abroad.

Taiwan has a generally excellent educational system. The main challenge is to make the rest of the world aware of its quality and to enable education in Taiwan to be more easily accessible to foreigners.

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Learning a new language is challenging enough.

But for thousands of immigrants in London, the COVID-19 pandemic has made the task that much harder, forcing newcomers, teachers and service providers to reimagine teaching in an age of social distancing and online learning.

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Given their topicality, two of the emails I received last week form the basis of today’s discussion. Inter alia, the first one read: “Growing up in the English language from primary school through college, my tutors of English language taught me that the word ‘discuss’ is never followed by the preposition ‘about’. They would say for example- we will discuss that topic tomorrow and not- we will discuss about that topic tomorrow. Many a journalist in both the print and electronic media and other good speakers of English language have used ‘discuss about’ with abandon”.

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