THE US government is launching a pilot foreign language-teaching program to boost the study of languages and regions of the world critical to national security. Texas, Ohio and Oregon will receive $333,333 each for the program, which includes the expanding foreign-language training in Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, French, German, Japanese, Russian and Spanish. Study-abroad opportunities also would grow.
Malaysia’s “English only” ruling put on hold
马来西亚小学数理科考试采用全英语计划推迟
THE Malaysian government has announced Primary School Assessment Examination candidates will continue to have the choice of taking Mathematics and Science in either English or Malay in the next two to three years. The Prime Minister explained that the schoolchildren had yet to attain proficiency in English.
