Cor blimey, guvnor:
“Young people are growing up with a new form of composite language. It’s a bit cockney, a bit West Indian, a bit West African, with some Bangladeshi and Kuwaiti – and it seems to be replacing traditional cockney.”
This is the flabbergasted view of Paul Kerswill, professor of sociolinguistics at Lancaster University, who has [...]
South Korea: In an intriguing news item from the Korea Times, a labour union, comprised of native English teachers working for a hagwon (Korean language institute), has been established in Incheon, with representation from a legal expert on labour.
Amazingly, well, for me anyway, this is the second teachers’ union in the country, the first [...]
English standards in the Philippines are slipping, according to the results of a ‘major international testing system’. This can only mean one thing, the teachers are to blame, of course.
This ‘major international testing system’ also showed Malaysians have taken the top spot in English proficiency among South-East Asian countries, although whether this refers to any [...]
Not only can you win prizes, you can even attend presentations. BTW, I actually know one of the people in the pictures.
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The not entirely optimism-inspiring named Enconcept E-Academy, established in 1994, is now considered, apparently, to be a new ‘breed’ of English cram school. Are you already worried?
It has a range of ‘interesting’ and ‘pragmatic’ methods to attract more and more students to learn English, whether it’s vocabulary, grammar, or conversation, which we all know [...]
Halten sie kinder. Wie heissen sie? Apologies for my crap German, but if the answer is Charlotte or Chantal, you could be in trouble. From the moment they first read the school register, exclaims The Local (Germany’s news – in English!) teachers could already be unfairly prejudiced against certain children, a new study from the [...]
The Malaysian government, still not content about the amount of damage it’s done, is considering bringing forward the implementation of the new policy to replace the Teaching and Learning of Science and Mathematics in English (PPSMI) to 2011 for Year One pupils. However, notes The Sun Daily, this will depend on ’several factors’ such as [...]
Not that offering courses in three (that’s 3) different languages is any kind of record, but prospective students of Dulwich College, scheduled to open in Seoul in 2010 will have a chance to learn three languages at the same time. I know, you can scare contain your excitement.
Fraser White, executive chairman of the Dulwich College [...]
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Vermont: The Burlington free press reports that ‘History is repeating itself in Winooski in the form of a wave of new immigrants. About a third of the students in the Winooski public-school system are English language learners, School Superintendent Steve Perkins said last week.’
This, apparently represents a 20 percent increase when compared to the [...]
Here’s how it goes…
“I have a regular salary,” he says, reading lines off a computer screen.
The voice-recognition software evaluates his answer: 100 per cent.
“Would you describe your work as stable?” continues Lucy.
“Yes. How long will it take you to evaluate my application?”
Another 100 per cent. Not bad.
Thrilling stuff, I’m sure you’ll agree.
In September, Speak2Me’s registered [...]
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