They had never been like an ordinary mother and daughter, partly because Amina was an only child, and partly because they'd spent so much time together after she had to leave school, studying the textbooks they borrowed from the British Council: "Functional English" and "New English First".
To meet the growing demand for better English language learning tools in Japan and help native speakers address the challenge of finding conversational practice in functional English, OKpanda is taking a mobile approach.
[ 10] However, when faced with English-speaking health professionals, patients with no functional English will require interpreting services.
In comparison, we dichotomised responses into functional/no functional English to assess levels of English literacy, so our results will appear positively skewed for this variable.
AMEP is a federally funded English language tuition program that is offered to eligible migrants and humanitarian entrants to Australia who do not have functional English.
This study shows that nearly 300,000 adults from the four main ethnic communities in England and Wales have no functional English to communicate with their health professional.
