Schools are starting to teach English as much as Arabic as a second language.
And the majority of the kids at the school are ESL, English as a second language.
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Founded in 2004, Oikos offers classes in nursing, music, Asian medicine and English as a second language.
Many Macedonians and Slovenes still speak or understand what used to be called Serbo-Croat as a second language.
We have added two English as a Second Language(ESL) teachers, as well as provided staff development on best practices for teaching ESL students.
There were particular concerns that it would fail to engage with children who spoke English as a second language and pupils with special needs.
The Reverend Lydia Hernandez is with Manos De Cristo, a volunteer group that, among other things, teaches English as a second language in Austin Texas.
However, much of the growth is due to the numbers of schoolchildren acquiring Welsh as a second language due to the boom in bilingual schooling.
Statisticians say this is because of an increase of foreign students at independent schools taking different examinations aimed at those with English as a second language.
English as a second language would be an educational priority.
Language, it appears, remains a persistent barrier to international marriage in Europe and the spread of English as a second language does not seem to have changed that.
" That includes a sharp drop in those getting schooling through English as a second language programs, meaning they did not "receive the educational services to which they are legally entitled.
Our members are tutoring immigrant students and assisting them with their academics, serving as English as a Second Language instructors, connecting community members to services and resources in their local areas, conducting workshops on volunteer recruitment, health education amongst other necessary and important topics.
Surely the rise of English as a universal second language is good for business?
In addition, many of the libraries participating in the program are offering English-as-a-Second Language classes using BTOP-funded computers.
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Just 7 percent of fourth-grade and 3 percent of eighth-grade English learners scored "proficient" or above in a nationwide reading exam, and thousands languish for years in ineffective English-as-a-second-language programs.
Jennifer Powell-Lunder, a clinical psychologist and author of "Teenage as Second Language: A Parent's Guide to Becoming Bilingual, " says midcareer professionals must be especially vigilant about recognizing when they sound like teen wannabes.
But in some places, students are getting stuck in English-as-a-second-language programs all the way until graduation.
In May, a study commissioned by the Scottish government said children in Scotland should begin learning a second language as soon as they started school at the age of five.
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Somali is a close second to English as the most-spoken first language in Moss Side schools.
These supports include parenting classes, English as Second Language classes, and job training, to name a few.
As formal education took hold, Latin language and literature studies introduced young people to a second, more worldly experience of reading one that, offered in the name of the time-honored tradition of the classical education, did not seem incompatible with their Bible studies.
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