Arizona recently ordered its schools to remove teachers with heavy foreign accents from English-language instruction, while the Obama administration is seeking to push more multilingual teaching in K-12 classrooms.
The Answer Mate 5000 was, according to its multilingual operating instructions, a miracle of modern technology, since it not only logged the time and date of incoming calls but dispensed curt, preprogrammed replies to all those retro-people from Og's past who refused to leave well enough alone.
It is a multilingual hub in largely rural Broome County, providing immigration services, English instruction, citizenship classes, ethnic celebrations and refugee resettlement.
Public schools in California will have more power to develop their own bilingual and multilingual programs after voters on Tuesday approved a measure repealing English-only instruction across the state.
If you are part of the test group, you can now enable this feature, look for the 'Languages' section in your account section to enable the multilingual composer (and Pages owners who haven't opted in yet can find instructions here).
Both are available with instructions in multiple languages, which make them useful in multicultural and multilingual population.
Proposition 58, which cruised to an early victory on election night with 73% of the vote, overhauls English-only instruction in California, granting public schools more power over their own bilingual and multilingual programs. .
Come November, voters will decide the fate of Proposition 58, which would repeal English-only instruction in public schools, allowing local parents and teachers to develop their own multilingual programs.
Proposition 58, the product of 2014 legislation written by Lara, would repeal English-only instruction in public schools, giving local parents and teachers the control to develop their own multilingual programs.
The graphic basis of FPS-R and availability of instructions in foreign languages makes it a simple tool to use in a multicultural and multilingual population, including older adults with cognitive impairment.
