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Our research found non-native English speakers face higher rejection rates and 12.5 times more revisions than their native English-speaking counterparts. But there are solutions.
There are more than 600,000 students in government and Catholic schools learning English as an additional language.
As part of an anti-extremism strategy, the home secretary says funds for translation services will be cut, but more put into English lessons.
The education of children who speak more than one language is being used as part of a wider debate about immigration just months before the UK’s 2015 general election. But there is surprisingly little…
An hour of homework or an hour of World of Warcraft? It’s not hard to guess what many ten-year-old boys would rather be doing when they get home from school. But now research shows that in non-English…
A new report from the think-tank Demos is calling for a new national strategy for the way we teach English to migrants in the UK. Its researchers point to 850,000 people in the most recent census who said…
There are now more than 1.1 million children in our schools whose first language “is known or believed to be other than English” according to the latest government figures. This confirms a continuous upwards…
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Senior Lecturer in the School of Languages and Applied Linguistics, The Open University
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Professor of Teaching English for Speakers of Other Languages, University of Leeds
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Associate Professor of English, University of Oslo
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Associate Professor TESOL/Languages Education, Deakin University
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