The Asian EFL Journal Global Newsletter. Issue 3.

Singapore continues drive to speak good English.

English is one of four official languages in this former British colony that is the hub of Asian trade and culture. Mandarin, Malay and Tamil are the others.

The linguistic diversity has meant the English spoken in Singapore has its own flavor, sometimes borrowing words and phrases from other languages, sometimes evolving unique new ones into slang known locally as "Singlish."
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Middle Eastern educators

Forty-one educators from Jordan, Syria, Morocco and Egypt, most of whom have never been in the U.S. before, are taking part in a State Department and UD English Language Institute (ELI) program this summer designed to enhance their teaching skills while providing them and the Americans they meet with firsthand knowledge of each other.

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Singapore MOE puts ad in UK for teachers
EVEN as the debate on whether Singapore should recruit native English speakers was going on in newspaper forum pages, the Ministry of Education was already recruiting teachers from at least one English-speaking country - Britain.
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Featured Conference (Australia - Macquarie Uni)
Diversity and Community in Applied Linguistics: Interface, Interpretation, Interdisciplinary
International Conference, 20-22 September, 2006
The purpose of the conference is to provide an opportunity for applied linguists, language researchers and language educators working in a variety of diverse and overlapping fields to consider the issues of interface, interpretation and interdisciplinary among their communities.click

  
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Ellis -v- Swan
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