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2. Language education in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Language, in this circumstance was given a set of guidelines that stated it must be productive, have the ability to produce an infinite number of sentences that cover every available topic, and introduces, uses, and relates symbols, [5] This definition also needed to be broadened to accommodate for the thousands of different dialects in every ...

3. Bilingual Education Act - Wikipedia

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   While some states, such as California and Texas, and numerous local school districts around the country already had policies and programs designed to meet the special educational needs of elementary and secondary school students not fluent in the English language, this act signaled that the federal government now also recognized the need for ...

4. STARTALK (language program) - Wikipedia

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   Languages taught under the STARTALK program previously included Arabic, Chinese, Dari, Hindi, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Turkish, and Urdu. From 2006 until 2021, the STARTALK program was administered by the National Foreign Language Center of the University of Maryland, located in Riverdale, Maryland .

5. National Security Language Initiative - Wikipedia

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   Students then take an Oral Proficiency Interview, or OPI, to determine their language ability before taking part in the program. All eight summer language programs are 6–7 weeks in duration and take place between mid June to early August. Academic year programs vary more significantly by country, but generally take place from September to May.

6. Language immersion - Wikipedia

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   The first French-language immersion program in Canada, with the target language being taught as an instructional language, started in Quebec in 1965. [2] Since the majority language in Quebec is French, English-speaking parents wanted to ensure that their children could achieve a high level of French as well as English in Quebec.

7. Early childhood education in the United States - Wikipedia

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   The federal government called for a minimal increase in Head Start funding with approximately $9.3 billion for said program. This subsidy is estimated to serve around 861,000 kids. However, the administration withdrew the requirement that such program started serving children for a longer day and school year due to insufficient funding.

8. Defense Language Institute - Wikipedia

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   The Defense Language Institute is responsible for the Defense Language Program, and the bulk of the Defense Language Institute's activities involve educating DoD members in assigned languages, and international personnel in English. Other functions include planning, curriculum development, and research in second-language acquisition.

9. Multilingual education - Wikipedia

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   MLE proponents stress that the second language acquisition component is seen as a "two-way" bridge, such that learners gain the ability to move back and forth between their first language and the other language(s), rather than simply a transitional literacy program where reading through the first language is abandoned at some stage in the ...