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KBBF is owned and operated by the Bilingual Broadcasting Foundation Inc. (BBFI). History [ edit ] The Bilingual Broadcasting Foundation, Inc. (BBFI) was created in August 1971 by several Sonoma State University students and community leaders with the specific purpose of operating an educational radio station that would perform public services. [3]
Today, French is the first official language of 23% of Canada's population, [1] with 29.2% of Public Service of Canada employees identifying French as their first official language, [2] including 32% of management-level jobs. [3] The first high-profile complaint of preferential hiring took place in 1834.
The Seal of Biliteracy is an award given by a school, school district or county office of education in recognition of students who have studied and attained proficiency in two or more languages by high school graduation. The Seal of Biliteracy takes the form of a seal that appears on the transcript or diploma of the graduating senior and is a ...
Official bilingualism in Canada. The official languages of Canada are English and French, [1] which "have equality of status and equal rights and privileges as to their use in all institutions of the Parliament and Government of Canada ," according to Canada's constitution. [2] ".
Cognitive effects of bilingualism. Bilingualism, a subset of multilingualism, [1] [2] means having proficiency in two or more languages. [3] A bilingual individual is traditionally defined as someone who understands and produces two or more languages on a regular basis. [4] A bilingual individual's initial exposure to both languages may start ...
Bilingual–Bicultural or Bi-Bi deaf education programs use sign language as the native, or first, language of Deaf children. In the United States, for example, Bi-Bi proponents state that American Sign Language (ASL) should be the natural first language for deaf children in the United States, although the majority of deaf and hard of hearing being born to hearing parents.
The Better Business Bureau ( BBB) is an American private, 501 (c) (6) nonprofit organization founded in 1912. BBB's self-described mission is to focus on advancing marketplace trust, [2] consisting of 92 independently incorporated local BBB organizations in the United States and Canada, coordinated under the International Association of Better ...
Airbnb has undermined users’ safety by scaling back its work to remove extremists from its platform, a former contractor alleged in a new whistleblower complaint.