Around the world, the Chinese government has funded Chinese-language study centres, called Confucius Institutes.
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Hitchings acknowledges the tie between political correctness (he calls it that) and the descriptive approach to language study.
He said the rise in maths and single sciences was "encouraging", but the fall in language study was "worrying".
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Some colleges reportedly plan to end a English test that has been part of their entrance process, a move that would seemingly reduce demand for English-language study.
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This new program at Lang allows incoming freshmen to spend their first year deeply immersed in the developing world through homestays, language study, and apprenticeships with local, civic-minded organizations.
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The study found the biggest decline in language provision had been at the newer universities and that language study was becoming increasingly concentrated in the older universities and among students from more affluent backgrounds.
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Educators feared that all courses below university level might be ruled off limits to overseas students, even though between 40% and 50% of foreigners at British universities had taken an earlier course in Britain, usually to hone language or study skills.
In her book The Language of Female Leadership, Dr. Judith Baxter discussed her study of how language is used in senior executive and boardroom meetings to understand power patterns.
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According to a new study, the language of financial analysts and reporters becomes increasingly similar leading up to a stock market bubble.
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He said that the government's plans take a more "flexible" approach towards universities, particularly on students' English language requirements and working during study.
The Pontifical Academy for Latin will promote the knowledge and study of the language from classical times to the present day, said the Vatican.
That will supposedly be done over the next four years, during which time the researchers will work with language development specialists who normally study how parents teach children to speak.
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For Japanese living in Japan, the overwhelming priority should be thorough study of the Japanese language.
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According to the ministry's statement, AbdulMutallab had obtained a visa to study Arabic at a language institute in Yemen where he had previously studied.
Mr Cameron said there was no limit on the number of Indian students that could come to British universities, as long as they had an English language qualification and a place to study.
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Twitter and SMS interactions so that it can study a user's language to further understand how the person talks.
Candidates must be proficient in reading and writing the language of instruction in the proposed country of study.
Schools treat Spanish as a foreign language and there is no legal way to study in Spanish at university.
He said he hoped common sense would now prevail so that students could come into the UK to study English with a lower level in the language, equivalent to having studied it for 150 to 200 hours.
On the other end of the spectrum, another study reports that the children of older mothers have better language, social, and emotional development than those of younger mothers.
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Language has the same effect, and in another, as yet unpublished study Mr Fincher and Dr Thornhill found a similar relationship there too.
After ten weeks of Tai Chi classes, the study group showed significant improvements in tests of their memory, language, attention, stress, mood and fatigue.
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"In particular, GCSE qualifications in core subjects such as English language are used by learners as either a passport to employment or to further study, " a spokesperson said.
It said the person handling Cemlyn Davies' application to study French with politics there had "regrettably misinterpreted" its rules on language subjects.
"Two dimensional lines and plots are not able to speak a language that parents understand, " Jain points out in an editorial published with the study.
At the same time, social and intellectual activities such as visiting family and friends, reading, playing intellectually stimulating games or learning a new language did nearly nothing to ward off the symptoms of an aging brain, the study said.
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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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