Despite programmes to Arabise school education, French continued to be the dominant language in business and professional circles.

ECONOMIST: Algeria

Schools that work towards inclusion find ways to assist migrants with language deficits but to encourage integration in the dominant language of instruction as soon as possible.

UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences

In some of the programs, students are taught half their subjects in English and the other half in Spanish, or they start with more time in the dominant language until becoming equally fluent in both.

NPR: Instruction Of Students Learning English Bleak

Parents stop using traditional tongues, thinking it will be better for their children to grow up using a dominant language (such as Swahili in East Africa) or a global one (such as English, Mandarin or Spanish).

ECONOMIST: Endangered languages

Approximately 25 percent of immigrants come from countries where English is the dominant or official language, and another 20 percent come from Spanish-speaking countries.

UNESCO: II Part Analytic Section

Though the Internet boasts users from dozens of countries, the alphabet is dominant, as is the English language -- a legacy of the Net's North American origins.

CNN: COMMUNICATION

His focus is actually now on the Java language, which has become the dominant platform for enterprise apps.

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That inevitably goes some way to explain how the language is being diluted in areas where Welsh has been dominant for centuries.

BBC: 2011: The Year of Sharp Decreases

On the other hand, I had an early facility with language, but it was my complete hopelessness with arithmetic that was the single dominant experience of my young life.

NPR: Living With an Inability to Do Math