Word: englishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...virtually every case of which I am aware (and this includes the cases mentioned in your article) spouses who end up at the same university have not done so by accident, but rather with the conscious planning and/or efforts of the university involved. Deborah E. Nord Assistant Professor of English...
Alan E. Heimert '49, Cabot Professor of American Literature, will teach "English Puritanism and New England" with Janice Knight...
When French-speaking Yves Lavigueur, 18, answered the door at his family's house in Montreal one night last week, he found a poorly dressed caller babbling in English and unable to say anything in French. He promptly sent the man packing. But the next night the visitor knocked again, and this time he had a French-speaking person in tow. With his friend's help, William Murphy, 28, explained to Yves's father Jean-Guy, 51, that he had found a wallet belonging to the elder Lavigueur. The unemployed Murphy had anonymously returned the wallet to Jean...
...literacy program works to lower the high illiteracy rate of the refugees. With almost 50 percent of the immigrants unable to read or write in their own language, literacy is important in the effort to teach them English, according to Corey A. Miller '89, who will teach Spanish at the center this year...
...crippling language barrier, which is being used as a weapon against them. It's hard to function socially, let alone get your point across, when you don't speak the language. All the state has provided in this instance, however, is one Chinese translator and 25 slots in an English as a Second Language (ESL) program...