In another study, English speakers watched the video of Janet Jackson's infamous "wardrobe malfunction" (a wonderful nonagentive coinage introduced into the English language by Justin Timberlake), accompanied by one of two written reports.
At the moment, 14 to 16-year-olds in England have to study English, maths, science, design and technology, modern foreign languages, information and communications technology and PE.
Oxford was judged the best place in the world to study English, while Cambridge came second, ahead of eight US universities that took the rest of the places in the global top ten.
Notwithstanding this, six years of English study is mandated in middle and high schools.
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At age 16 in 1973, Son--who dropped his family's adopted Japanese name, Yasumoto, in favor of the ancestral Son--arrived in Berkeley, Calif. to study English.
The results of the study are now available online in English and French.
The government has already issued guidance to English doctors in the wake of the Million Women study .
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.
Why does a study-abroad program in a small, English-speaking country on the edge of Europe matter in a time of austerity and budget crises?
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It follows a two-year pilot study which identified and mapped 14, 807 orchards in nine English counties, including Cumbria, Cambridgeshire, Devon and Somerset.
The English literature lecturer discovered the piece in February, after being asked to study a collection of papers bought by a New Zealand library.
In 1992 he took a year off from prestigious Moscow State University to study at Beloit College in Wisconsin, where he perfected his English.
Though some fundamentalists appear to believe that the Bible was written in English, for the more thoughtful (or pious) Christian, serious study of the New Testament or the early Christian church is impossible without first knowing alpha from omega.
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This study, which came out in French three years ago and now in English, is a homage from a critical admirer.
But fewer students want to study humanities subjects: English departments awarded more bachelor's degrees in 1970-71 than they did 20 years later.
One eloquent English teacher in Los Angeles recently called a radio show complaining that, after extensive study, she could not understand the ballot measures on grounds of syntax.
The study was of English schools because comparable data is not available from schools in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
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All children should study English and maths until that age, it recommends, which is in line with Labour proposals.
The social sciences such as English, philosophy, and anthropology are areas of study that will remain relevant in our changing world.
In California, 59 percent of secondary school English learners were found to have been in U.S. schools for more than six years without reaching English proficiency, according to a study by Californians Together, a statewide coalition of parents, teachers and education advocates.
"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.
My choices to study English Literature and Humanities at Valparaiso University, and then at their UK exchange programme in Cambridge, England, meant that I was more interested in learning and thinking than finding a job.
It found that in the most recent study in 2009, the county's carbon emissions were 18% higher per person than the English average.
These radicals already completely dominate the Muslim establishment in Great Britain, for instance, where only 6% of the imams speak English, according to a recent study.
Overall English pupils achieved scores in line with the international average for maths in the 2003 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), with the top 10% of pupils' results comparable with those from some high achieving East Asian countries.
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