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There are now more and more foreign children in the classroom, and many of them speak a different language to that of their sociolinguistic environment. A study by the University of Gerona has assessed the knowledge of Catalan and Spanish amongst these children and confirms that they take at least six years to acquire the same language levels as native pupils. Researchers propose a new system that has proven successful in other countries as a way of stopping language from becoming a barrier...
With Web 2.0, secondary school immigrant students improve their oral skills in second languages, simultaneously using their mother tongue It is not easy for those school pupils who, besides being adolescents, are immigrants. The fact is that, in Compulsory Secondary Education (ESO-DBH in their Spanish and Basque initials), it is more necessary than ever to be fluent in the local language in order to comprehend concepts and procedures. Moreover, the attitude of an adolescent who is going...
SteelMaster Buildings unveils Spanish-language website to better serve this growing consumer base, both in the United States and Internationally. Virginia Beach, VA (PRWEB) November 1, 2010 SteelMaster Buildings today announced the launch of a Spanish-language website to better connect with consumers throughout the United States and across the globe. Based in Virginia Beach, VA, SteelMaster Buildings represents more than 28 years of premium quality manufacturing, providing steel arch...
GENEVA and CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 23, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Carlos Moreira, Chairman and Founder of WISeKey, is to unveil his vision and plans towards the region in an address to a selected audience of over 500 entrepreneurs and members of the science community in New England during the traditional MIT Latin Conference to be held this week-end in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Carlos Moreira will debate some of these initiatives with MIT's Media Lab Scholars and MIT Sloan School...
EAGAN, Minn., Nov. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Se habla Espanol. The population of Spanish speakers in the U.S. continues to grow at a steady rate. The U.S. Hispanic population is now estimated at 47 million, and the number of Hispanic-owned businesses tripled between 1997 and 2002 (U.S. Census Bureau, 2009). To address this growing demographic, FindLaw.com (www.findlaw.com), the most-visited legal Web site for free legal information, has launched a new Spanish content center providing free legal...
By Daniel Trotta NEW YORK (Reuters) - America's reputation as an English-only nation is fading, and not just because cartoon character Bart Simpson says "Ay, Caramba!" and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger recycles his old movie line "Hasta la vista, baby." Across the United States more people are mixing Spanish into conversation, and American parents are fighting to place their kids in bilingual schools. In Washington, parents used to camp out on the sidewalk for days to enroll...
