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The English Access Microscholarship Program is an international project created by the U.S Department of State which aims to help teens (13–20 years-old) from economically disadvantaged backgrounds gain opportunities in employment, education, and life in general. Access promotes skills and knowledge in the English language, as well as giving ...
International English Language Testing System (IELTS / ˈ aɪ. ɛ l t s /) is an international standardized test of English language proficiency for non-native English language speakers. It is jointly managed by the British Council, IDP and Cambridge English, and was established in 1989. IELTS is one of the major English-language tests in the ...
Cambridge English Corpus. The Cambridge International Corpus (CIC) is a collection of over 800 million words of real spoken and written English . The texts are stored in a database that can be searched to see how English is used. The CIC also contains the Cambridge Learner Corpus, a unique collection of over 60,000 exam papers from Cambridge ...
Glan-y-Môr supply around 20 students to take part in the revision sessions. The Revision Week is provided at no cost to the students (not even for study materials and books etc.) as the programme is supported by the West and Mid Wales Widening Access Partnership, European Union Social Fund and Scottish Power Learning.
Translanguaging. Translanguaging is a term that can refer to different aspects of multilingualism. It can describe the way bilinguals and multilinguals use their linguistic resources to make sense of and interact with the world around them. [1] It can also refer to a pedagogical approach that utilizes more than one language within a classroom ...
This table lists all two-letter codes (set 1), one per language for ISO 639 macrolanguage , and some of the three-letter codes of the other sets, formerly parts 2 and 3. Language formed from English and Vanuatuan languages, with some French influence. Modern Hebrew. Code changed in 1989 from original ISO 639:1988, iw. [3]
The Language Access Act of 2004 guarantees equal access and participation in public services, programs, and activities for residents of the District of Columbia who cannot (or have limited capacity to) speak, read, or write English. Speakers of Amharic, French, Chinese, Spanish, Vietnamese and Korean receive additional accommodations.
Manually Coded English systems. Manually Coded English (MCE) is the result of language planning efforts in multiple countries, especially the United States in the 1970s. Four systems were developed in attempts to represent spoken English manually; Seeing Essential English (also referred to as Morphemic Signing System (MSS) or SEE-1), Signing Exact English (SEE-2 or SEE), Linguistics of Visual ...