WITH A$2.27 million ($1.56 million) in Australian government funding, the teaching of at least nine foreign languages will be rolled out in the University of Queensland, Griffith University and Queensland University of Technology in 2009. By then, students at the three universities will be able to major in Chinese, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian and Spanish. None of these universities currently offer this range of languages.
US needs to teach immigrants English
美国需大力度提升移民英语水平
THE United States must embark on an aggressive effort to teach immigrants English, so that they can fully integrate into American society, a US federal task force recommended. It does not specify how much money federal or state governments should use for adult English-language instruction, but does urge the development of Internet-based electronic learning tools for adults to learn English.
