But after a while these immigrants improve their English skills and the demand goes down.
Born in Hangzhou, China, he perfected his English skills by talking up tourists at a local hotel.
These results are consistent with the idea that education and English skills have become more complementary over time.
Third, sector programs have had difficulty finding people with the math and English skills necessary to master technical skills quickly.
Furthermore, we find that English skills do not raise wages at all for younger men who have not completed their secondary school education.
He likens it to a "safe cybercafe for children" where they can strengthen their English skills, which can be a route to economic advancement.
She said Indonesian maids were in demand as carers for the elderly because, with limited English skills, their Cantonese has a tendency to improve quickly.
In one case, a KRC client who applied for a government-sponsored loan modification program misunderstood a call he received from his lender due to limited English skills.
With little education and, often, poor English skills, they were stuck in limbo, a world of minimum wage jobs with no chance of security or bettering their lives.
For Miranda, a green card and 26 years in the country give her some security, but limited English skills and no formal education offer few other work options.
They say al-'Owhali's English skills are too limited -- he speaks only broken English and can't read it -- for him to have understood what he was being told or asked to sign.
The 3% who earn the minimum wage tend to be people in special circumstances, the most important category of which are people with very low skills, little job experience, and sometimes even poor English skills.
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Since January 2009, the Division has opened 22 new investigations to determine if school districts, and in some instances, entire states, were complying with their obligations to ensure educational opportunities for students with limited English skills.
The Department has also played a lead role in the enforcement of Executive Order 13166, which is designed to ensure that people with limited English skills can meaningfully access a wide array of critical programs and services administered by or funded by the federal government.
Nonetheless, in a recent study by Harvard's Richard Murnane and co-authors, differences in mother-child interaction patterns like these were found to account for one-third of the black-white gap in math and English skills at the beginning of kindergarten -- and one-quarter at the end of third grade.
Their poor English language skills also place them at a disadvantage in this country.
It is meant for the people in ASEAN in order to improve and strengthen the English language skills.
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And they can teach courses in languages other than English, allowing us to provide content to students who have little or no English language skills.
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The owner of another supply teachers' agency said schools might have legitimate concerns about English language skills - and that this might be misinterpreted as racism.
A. class is international, hosts 80 to 100 foreign students each July to help them refresh their English communication skills and prepare for life in North Carolina.
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They are often taken advantage of in this country, due to their poor English language skills, and the constant threat, explicit or implicit, of being reported to immigration authorities.
The UK Border Agency had found students at the university without any right to remain in the UK, some without adequate English language skills and claimed that the university was failing to monitor the attendance of overseas students.
But the managing director of another teacher recruitment agency operating in several different parts of England, who did not want to be identified, said that the issues of race and ethnicity could be confused with English language skills.
By teaching them English language skills, exposing them to their new culture and encouraging them to be proud of their native culture, and emphasizing how they are great contributors to the daily life of our community, I am affecting a positive change in their lives and the lives of their families.
Shadow Education Secretary Andy Burnham welcomed the proposals to improve English and maths skills.
India, with its English-language skills and common-law tradition is well-placed to secure a big share of the business.
We find that the returns to English-language skills are on average higher for older workers and for more educated workers.
This, together with Hong Kong's deteriorating English-language skills, still-high costs and ever-thickening air pollution, had led some in the city to wonder whether the good old days would ever return.
But before passing a diploma, students would also have to show "functional" skills in English, maths and information technology.
It has a dedicated foreign-language school with international teachers and touts its English-language teaching skills, the foreign studies of many of its faculty members and its alliances with foreign schools.
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