Even if we include non-English pages, our data collection strategy will filter them out, since our issue list is specified in English.
When the two tests described above were administered, all teachers of participating students (English subtest: n = 891 for 2002; n = 887 for 2005) responded to questionnaire items, some of which asked to what extent they had conducted the activities specified for English I in the CoS for the period.
Exclusion criteria specified non-English speaking subjects, cognitive impairment or serious active psychiatric disease.
While the former was the first attempt in history to specify the English proficiency that Japanese teachers of EFL are expected to hold2, the latter became the backbone of MEXT's 2009 version of the Course of Study.
The Twitter resource, Topsy (http://topsy.com/), which houses all tweets made since 2006, was searched for the following brand names of MS treatments: Aubagio, Avonex, Betaferon or Betaseron, Copaxone, Extavia, Gilenya, Lemtrada, Novantrone, Rebif, Tysabri and Tecfidera using a daily search-time window (i.e. searching for tweets made every day), and specifying the English language.
The government has proposed English proficiency scores that Japanese teachers of English should attain, but has not yet specified clearly what English language use should be like in the classroom.
Announced formally only seven weeks ago in the government's schools white paper, this will rank schools on the proportion of their pupils achieving A*-C passes in five subject areas specified by ministers: English; maths; two sciences; ancient or modern history or geography; and a modern or ancient language.
NOTE: EVA & ADELE specified that in English, "appearances" means something quite different from "appearance".
In 1994, after Chng Suan Sze was decided, the Application of English Law Act was enacted with the effect that only English statutes specified in the First Schedule of the Act continued to apply in Singapore after 12 November 1993.
