Money can help speed up the efforts, allowing tribes to hire language teachers or pay for apps.
She also highlighted the danger of a downward spiral: fewer people studying languages after 14 would mean fewer future language teachers.
The government cash was also to be used for language teachers in primary schools and science and maths teachers in secondary schools.
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However, the full proposals are as yet un-costed and could face hurdles because of the high costs associated with training language teachers.
Language teachers might also take a leaf from the further-maths textbook.
The relaxation also covers foreign language teachers, business executives, media correspondents, researchers and employees transferred to Poland by their companies, who will not need to apply for work permits.
Another exciting initiative announced this week is the news that the Samoan Language Teachers Association (FAGASA) and the Maori Language Commission have joined forces to support gagana Samoa and te reo Maori.
Without such tools, children and parents who speak one language and teachers who speak another have no chance.
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.
The older ones had their first day at school on June 8th and 25 of the younger ones have just started at the primary school next door, where, despite language problems, teachers say they mingle well with local children.
We have added two English as a Second Language(ESL) teachers, as well as provided staff development on best practices for teaching ESL students.
Slaughter, whose organization holds seminars on tribal language education and researches best practices for teachers, said she's witnessed a wave of interest in language renewal over the past two decades.
The scheme for children from nursery age upwards will follow the model established on that scheme of having all the teachers and assistants in the schools involved learning the language to be taught, rather than bringing in specialist teachers.
The Mr Bean star plays the title role in Quartermaine's Terms, Simon Gray's 1981 tragi-comedy about teachers at an English language school.
This is because most of their teachers give lessons in a language that is not their own.
Now, teachers at the Cherokee Nation language immersion school in Tahlequah, Okla.
But even with teachers, getting a Chinese-language program off the ground at a high school is difficult.
He told me his biggest challenge in education wasn't budget holes, it wasn't crumbling schools -- it was that the parents were too demanding. (Laughter.) He's had to import thousands of foreign teachers because parents insisted on English language training in elementary school.
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Half of teachers had failed to respond to homophobic language when they heard it and less than a quarter of schools had told pupils that homophobic bullying was wrong.
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In New Zealand, officials said 22 students and three teachers, who returned from a three-week language trip to Mexico, may have been infected with the swine flu virus.
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The city said its evaluation plans included things like the implementation and use of student feedback surveys as well as specific considerations for teachers who are dealing with students who are English language learners and students with disabilities.
It means boosting the number -- the numbers of quality teachers who can help our special education and English language learners meet high standards -- and you've done that here at Wright, so congratulations on that. (Applause.) It means improving instruction in science, technology, reading, math, and ensuring that more women and people of color are doing well in those subjects. (Applause.) So that's the second -- the second factor.
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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.
If the school opens as scheduled in September, it will, as a practical matter, have to operate on the basis of her curriculum, with the teachers she has hired and utilizing her selections of Arabic-language textbooks.
But the government's ambitions to extend language teaching to younger pupils will depend on tackling a shortage of modern languages teachers.
The other important thing to note about central planning is that a lot of school reformers like Rhee or Klein use the language of choice but then push their reforms from above with little input from teachers or parents.
Most of these teachers are local villagers in the communities who have some knowledge of Lao language and have been familiarized with the curriculum that they have been taught previously at school.
Hebrew lessons typically start several years, not several months, before your 13th birthday, and since I had no facility for language in the first place, it was only a couple of weeks before my teachers deemed me hopeless and, instead of teaching me Hebrew, had me performing maintenance chores, such as cleaning the school's blackboards.
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