So the city's education department is struggling to persuade the government that it still, 20 years after the main wave of immigration, needs extra money to pay for teaching children who speak little English.

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Many restaurants have a play area, and hostesses organize activities, such as teaching English songs and dances to entertain children while their parents dine.

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He criticised cuts to English language teaching despite a rising proportion of children who are non-native speakers.

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"It could be one of the few things that Michaels Gove and Rosen agree on", he writes in a leader column for the magazine, reflecting an ongoing disagreement between the secretary of state and the former children's laureate over the direction of English teaching in England's schools.

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My desire to help these children led me to return to school to earn my Masters of Arts in Teaching English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) at Johns Hopkins University.

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