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The US has decided to re-
The judges blocked the planned
tend to attend immersion classes
ISRAEL: establish the programme after reports of widespread cheating. safeguarded by investing in the from white middle-class families
examination system. This is the
Graduates who fail to develop receiving a request from the Sri re-sit of the English Paper 2 at the only way that the integrity of our while weaker less-privileged
their English language skills in gl bal Lankan government. eleventh hour, and ordered that examination can be restored.’ students attend English-only
schools will be ‘handicapped’ in The project will help develop the overall results be based solely streams. Mr Daley stressed the
today’s economy, the director the skills of English language on English Paper 1, according CANADA: importance of treating non-
of its education ministry has teachers. Volunteers will be to Zimbabwe’s The Herald French-immersion students in immersion students equally by
warned. In a letter to English housed in schools and centres newspaper. New Brunswick score much higher adding a sufficient number of
teachers, Shmuel Abuav, director supporting English and vocational Last month, the local on English tests than English- teachers to each classroom facing
of the Ministry of Education, training, according to the website examinations body nullified the medium students, international challenges, such as having to deal
compared the lack of English perspective colombopage.com. results of English paper 2 – a press has reported. Recent with more pupils with special
skills among graduates to a public exam taken by 260,000 standardised test results reveal that educational needs. According
physical disability, according to people at age sixteen – saying 94 per cent of Grade 9 immersion to New Brunswick’s policy of
the Arutz Sheva website. leakages of some papers had students did well on their English- inclusive education, which was
He said: ‘As English teachers, spawned widespread cheating. language assessments compared last updated in September 2013,
I’m sure that you understand as The Gazette editorial team’s This prompted outcry from with 74 per cent of pupils in the all students should be taught in a
well as I do just how important selection of ELT news from students and parents, who argued core programme. George Daley, ‘common learning environment’
your work is. candidates should not be made president of the New Brunswick and instruction should be provided
‘You know that a graduate who around the world to take the paper again. As she Teachers’ Association, has primarily by the classroom teacher.
doesn’t know English is a crippled granted an order to cancel the suggested that French immersion
graduate, and handicapped. He is re-sit, Justice Loice Matanda- leads to students becoming
a graduate whom we have failed Moyo criticised officials from the inadvertently grouped by their
in our most basic duty.’ according to Icef Monitor. Official Malay peninsula, science news studied by anthropologists, who Zimbabwe School Examinations levels of academic achievement,
A total of 38 per cent of government statistics show that website EurekAlert reports. failed to spot it, according to Council who had allowed the despite a policy of inclusion that
Israelis aged sixteen to 65 say 339,700 Chinese students went Jedek is a language variety EurekAlert. ZIMBABWE: leakages to happen. recommends the opposite.
they lack basic English skills such abroad during 2011, with 186,200 within the Austroasiatic family, High Court judges have blocked She said: ‘The government Studies have shown that
as speaking, reading, or writing, overseas graduates returning to spoken by 280 people. It does not controversial plans to make is urged to take interest in French-immersion programmes in
according to an official report China that same year. In 2016, contain either indigenous words students across the country re- ensuring that the credibility of Canada have a ‘cream skimming’
released in October. 544,500 Chinese students went for occupations or for courts of sit an O-level English paper after our educational standards are effect, where motivated students
Thirteen per cent say they do abroad while 432,500 returned law, or verbs to denote ownership
not know any English whatsoever. from overseas study. such as borrow, steal, buy or sell.
These graduates from foreign The quiet and almost gender-
universities are being drawn back equal way of life of its speakers is
home by job opportunities in reflected in the language, which
the ‘hot’ Chinese economy, the contains a rich vocabulary of Find out about
website’s analysis says. words to describe exchanging and Klim Levene LanguageCert’s recognitions
But, despite their language skills sharing. languagecert.org
and international experience, Linguists from Lund University
these graduates can struggle to in Sweden discovered the SRI LANKA:
find prestigious positions because language during the language The tropical island nation has English Spanish Turkish
they are yet to develop their documentation project Tongues called on the United States Peace
professional networks, it adds. of the Semang. They visited Corps to help improve English • International ESOL • LanguageCert USAL esPro • LanguageCert Ankara
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several villages to collect language language education, according to
CHINA: MALAYSIA: data from different groups who an official statement. The United
The number of Chinese graduates Swedish linguists have discovered speak Aslian subgroups of the States Peace Corps programme has
returning home from their a previously unknown language Austroasiatic language family. operated on and off in Sri Lanka
studies overseas every year has spoken by a community of hunter- The village where Jedek is since 1962, but it has not been
more than doubled since 2011, gatherers in the north of the spoken had previously been active in the country since 2006.

US: charts to provide a clearer that more than 400 different
Easier access to clear data about understanding of America’s languages are spoken across the
English language learners will diverse population of ELs. country. ‘The launch of this site
help to ‘dispel commonly held The data shows nearly every is a worthy investment on behalf
misconceptions’ about them, state has at least one school of ELs, their families and the
education officials have said. district where the EL population entire education community,’
The Department of has increased by more than 50 said Jose A. Viana, assistant
Education made the statement per cent since the 2010 school deputy secretary of the Office of Representing 5,000 tests
as it launched a new website year. The data also shows a English Language Acquisition. LanguageCert is a PeopleCert Group company
dedicated to data on English state-by-state chart of the most The new site can be found
learners (ELs) in the US. The common non-English languages here: https://tinyurl.com/
site uses maps, bar graphs and spoken by ELs, highlighting ycst7x47

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