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Published by Indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com, October 18, 2014 Something of the sentiment and thrust current in the American Indian/Indigenous world of the Americas was evident in a recent session in Lima, Peru. It wasn’t the United Nations in New York but, in its own way, it was multinational and thus international. Via Charles Tiayon 
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Published by The Telegraph, October 10, 2014 Our European neighbours shame us by their ability to converse in English. The Government would like that to be a thing of the past. So would Catherine Ford, head teacher of multilingual Moreton First Prep School.
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Published by Euronews, September 25, 2014 Teaching of Spanish in Europe’s secondary schools has enjoyed a ‘remarkable increase’, new figures reveal.
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Published by the Guardian, September 9, 2014 The number of UK students taking GCSEs in a foreign language rose 17% last summer, a turnaround welcomed by educationalists, who warned that interest in the subject area had plummeted over the past decade. Of the three main language GCSEs studied in UK schools, Spanish is the only one to be increasing in popularity year-on-year since 2011: while entries to French and German this summer remained steady, Spanish continued to soar. The number of students taking the subject is up by almost a third on 2012.
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Published by the British Broadcasting Service, September 5, 2014 A network of foreign language teaching hubs is to be set up across England to boost the language skills of teachers. It follows fears that many teachers do not have the skills to implement the new curriculum which requires foreign language teaching in primary schools.
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Published by Stuff.co.nz, August 11, 2014 Language experts are "in shock" at a government report suggesting migrants should learn English at the expense of their mother tongue to better integrate into New Zealand. The report on language and integration by the Department of Internal Affairs says employment rates and earning capacity of migrants correlate with their English language ability. It also says despite mother language maintenance having positive integration outcomes for migrants, there is a negative correlation between conditions that promote acquiring English language and maintaining their native language. Linguists believe the advice gives migrants a dangerous choice between learning English and a better chance at integrating or gaining benefits from maintaining their native language. "That is what is being presented in this report; it's a zero sum game. If you want to have good English, you really ought to stop speaking your home language," Victoria University linguistics professor Miriam Meyerhoff said.
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Publlished by The Conversation, July 14, 2014 It’s hard to know whether to laugh or cry every time (predominantly monolingual) politicians and policy makers lament the fact that we don’t have enough students in schools studying foreign languages…
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Published byThe Independent, June 13, 2012 Growing numbers of pupils around the world are learning a foreign language at an earlier age – with some starting as three-year-olds, says a major study released today. At least 11 countries have lowered the age at which children start learning a second language in the past decade, with two of them – Spain and Belgium – introducing the subject for pupils aged three. The first bilingual state primary school in England – St Paul's in Brighton – is also introducing lessons in Spanish for three-year-olds. The study, by language experts Teresa Tinsley and Therese Comfort for the education trust CfBT, offers a comprehensive insight into language teaching throughout the world. It coincides with the decision by Education Secretary Michael Gove, in his national curriculum review on Monday, to introduce compulsory language lessons for all children from the age of seven in September 2014. The report reveals that of 21 countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, England devotes the least time to teaching languages to nine to 11-year-olds.
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Published by The Guardian, September 30, 2011 The education secretary, Michael Gove, has proposed that every child aged five or over should be learning a foreign language, and promised to "pull every lever", including encouraging longer school days, to make it happen. "Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in not understanding mathematics, so we have taken a perverse pride in the fact that we do not speak foreign languages, and we just need to speak louder in English. It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning
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People living in Scotland are set to benefit from a new centre that will encourage and support speaking more than one language.
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Published by the Times Colonist,October 5,2014 Forty years after its introduction, Canada’s nationalist concept of bilingualism will inevitably transform into an international concept. Learning any second language will increase a child’s . . .
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Published by the Tengri News, September 10, 2014 The European Commission's most recent survey, dating to 2006, showed 56 percent of Spaniards spoke no second language. Five other EU countries ranked worse: Ireland, Britain, Italy, Hungary and Poland. But with its huge tourism industry and millions of foreign visitors each year, some argued that Spain had no excuse.
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Published in the Independent, September 9, 2014 (United Kingdom) Spanish will replace French as the most popular foreign language in schools, the head of the country’s biggest exam board said today.
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Published in the New York Times, August 24,2014 Japanese corporations are recruiting international students today to improve their ability to compete internationally.
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Published by the Cebu Sun Star, May 13, 2012 The DepEd’s full implementation of the bilingual education policy follows after successes in the piloting of using the local native tongue to teach in selected schools in the country. It is expected that a seven- to nine-year-old child will need less adjustments in making the transitions between absorbed and acquired knowledge and skills when these are inculcated through language he or she has grown up hearing at home or being used in daily life. Nurturing parents know that a normal and healthy child absorbs like a sponge all inputs, especially when these are repeated and encouraged, applied regularly and coursed through play, storytelling, make-believe, role-playing and other activities Even before the official implementation of the bilingual education policy, it has already been observed that the native tongue is spoken and heard constantly inside public schoolrooms. Teachers already pressured by huge classes, their students’ socio-economic backgrounds, attention deficits and even the instructor’s personal inadequacy with the English language often fall back on the native tongue to get the attention of their students, simplify lessons and stimulate interaction. The official advocacy of bilingual education may not only significantly improve students’ achievements in the areas of oral language competency, phonological skills, book and print knowledge, spelling, handwriting, grammar awareness and reading comprehension
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Published by The Telegraph, November 6,2013 Bilingual free schools: wilkommen, bienvenue, welcome to class A new wave of bilingual free schools is promoting the cultural and practical benefits of understanding more than one language.
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Dual Language Education of New Mexico's insight:
Published by the Calgary Herald, February 20, 2012 As Calgary's energy and business sectors continue to position themselves in the global economy, public schools here have seen a surge in foreign language education, with enrolment in Chinese and Spanish bilingual programs growing exponentially in the past five years. In 2006, 111 students were enrolled in the Mandarin bilingual program with the Calgary Board of Education. This year, that number more than tripled to 382. As well, in 2006, public schools had 1,035 students enrolled in the Spanish bilingual program with that number more than doubling to 2,518 this year. French-immersion students with the CBE remain steady, hovering between 7,337 and 7,097 over the past five years.
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