Winning English

[...] two languages not only catch up to their English immersion counterparts, but they eventually surpass them, both academically and linguistically. The [...]

[...] billion. Speakers of English as a second language probably outnumber those who speak it as a first language. Around 750 million people are believed to speak English as a foreign language. One out of [...]

[...] District is tasked with educating increasing rolls of students for whom English is not their first language. In the United States, the school-aged population has grown a modest 10 percent in the last [...]

[...] language, this pattern changes a few years later. By middle school, the students in the two-language programs score substantially above students in the English-only programs on a range of metrics. [...]

[...] starts at 6 p.m. In their study, the researchers identified a group of about 18,000 English-learner students in the San Francisco school system who entered kindergarten as early as the fall of 2001. [...]

[...] : how modern English came to be as it is. From Chaucer down to Joyce, you will see how the English language, largely due to the expansion of the empire from the seventeenth century onwards, reached [...]

[...] either as a visitor or a presenter and the chances are you’ll have to work in the English language. [...]

[...] people. Along with its proud status as the top first language, it is extensively used as a second language across the globe. For those wishing to study the subject further, for example to A level or [...]

[...] seventy five countries with a total population of over two billion. Speakers of English as a second language probably outnumber those who speak it as a first language. Around 750 million people are [...]

[...] further, for example to A level or degree level standard, it is naturally assumed that an excellent level of written and spoken English will already have been attained. In these higher level courses [...]

[...] Most professional jobs require a good level in English – think how impressive “excellent level in English” will look on your CV. Business and commerce are increasingly driven by [...]

[...] outnumber those who speak it as a first language. Around 750 million people are believed to speak English as a foreign language. One out of four of the world’s population speak English to some [...]

[...] ;San Francisco Unified is a remarkably diverse school system where there are students who speak English, Spanish and Cantonese, of course, but 68 other languages as well,” he said. Like [...]

[...] ,” Reardon said. “A lot of people worry that students in bilingual and dual immersion programs might never catch up, but this study shows convincingly that they do catch up and, in [...]

A partnership between the Stanford Graduate School of Education and San Francisco Unified School District examines the merits of four approaches to te [...]