Every year, the American Dialect Society, which is dedicated to the study of American English, votes on a word of the year.
The study was of English schools because comparable data is not available from schools in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
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Researchers tracked the psychological well-being of 10, 000 people aged 50 to 100 over nine years as part of the university's English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.
University College London researchers' study of 10, 000 English people also suggested future disability and poor health could be predicted by the state of a person's mind.
Notwithstanding this, six years of English study is mandated in middle and high schools.
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Ministers say the curriculum will be slimmed down, but there will be "detailed programmes of study" for English, maths and science that will set out the "core knowledge" expected.
In another study, English speakers watched the video of Janet Jackson's infamous "wardrobe malfunction" (a wonderful nonagentive coinage introduced into the English language by Justin Timberlake), accompanied by one of two written reports.
The results of the study are now available online in English and French.
Potential entrants have to speak a higher standard of English and the "post-study work route" to staying on has been closed, unless graduates have an offer of one of a list of skilled jobs.
Their long-term prospects were dim: economists who study the fortunes of immigrants say that education and knowledge of English are the predictors of success.
The study was a collaboration with Prof Richard Marggraf Turley of the English and creative writing department and Prof Howard Thomas from the Institute for Biological and Environmental Studies (Ibers).
Oxford was judged the best place in the world to study English, while Cambridge came second, ahead of eight US universities that took the rest of the places in the global top ten.
The government has already issued guidance to English doctors in the wake of the Million Women study .
The social sciences such as English, philosophy, and anthropology are areas of study that will remain relevant in our changing world.
These radicals already completely dominate the Muslim establishment in Great Britain, for instance, where only 6% of the imams speak English, according to a recent study.
The study, which focuses largely on English-speaking countries, looks at the price of housing relative to household income.
Why does a study-abroad program in a small, English-speaking country on the edge of Europe matter in a time of austerity and budget crises?
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At age 16 in 1973, Son--who dropped his family's adopted Japanese name, Yasumoto, in favor of the ancestral Son--arrived in Berkeley, Calif. to study English.
Though some fundamentalists appear to believe that the Bible was written in English, for the more thoughtful (or pious) Christian, serious study of the New Testament or the early Christian church is impossible without first knowing alpha from omega.
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In California, 59 percent of secondary school English learners were found to have been in U.S. schools for more than six years without reaching English proficiency, according to a study by Californians Together, a statewide coalition of parents, teachers and education advocates.
She highlighted a study by the English National Board for nursing, midwifery and health visiting that showed 71% of units provide one-to-one care during labour all the time.
The English literature lecturer discovered the piece in February, after being asked to study a collection of papers bought by a New Zealand library.
Mr Gove indicated that computer science could be added to the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) list of key academic subjects that teenagers are encouraged to study at GCSE.
Some colleges reportedly plan to end a English test that has been part of their entrance process, a move that would seemingly reduce demand for English-language study.
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The Department for Education said Mr Gove was determined to make English teaching at primary schools "more rigorous" and was publishing the draft programme of study now for informal consultation.
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Other changes to the English system will remain, including a move towards exams at the end of two years of study instead of pupils picking up points which count towards their final grade through modular exams.
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