Word: englishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could be happening even as you're reading this. You're waiting in yet another endless line for study cards/sectioning/to get into that class you probably won't take anyway, and you spot a friend you haven't seen since your English final last...
When the hotline was first started, in the summer, it was not frequently used because "the majority of students at the freshman dining hall in summer were English as a Second Language students," Shaffer says. Now, however, the line is often busy, he adds, and plans are already being drawn to add a second telephone line...
Gomes says she was wary when Shaffer asked her to make a recording for the first time because she is not a native speaker of English. "You'll notice my English is terrible," says Gomes, who speaks perfectly good English...
Gomes, who has lived in the United States for the last 21 years, hopes to improve her recordings by bettering her English. Working with students has "helped improve my vocabulary," she says...
...centrist academic writings. Ironically, the most important required text was by Eric Williams, the late, conservative Prime Minister of Trinidad, supplemented by an historical work by V.S. Nainaul, a political reactionary who is anathema to the Caribbean left. Only one of the required works was by a socialist, an English scholar who bent over backward to be fair...