About 10 percent of students in the Portland, Oregon public schools are assigned by lottery to dual-language classrooms that offer instruction in Spanish, Japanese or Mandarin, alongside English.

俄勒冈州波特兰市公立学校中，大约10%的学生经过抽签被分配到双语课堂，除了接受英语教学，还有西班牙语、日语或中文教学。

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Language Schools New Zealand offers many kinds of English courses including General English, Exam Preparation, Study & Ski and more.

新西兰语言学校提供多种英语课程，包括普通英语、备考英语、学习和滑雪等其他课程。

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Schools may switch to English, the language of the former colonial oppressor, from next year.

从明年开始，学校可能转向英语，前殖民压迫者的语言。

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Those supporting bilingual education argue that the state's 162, 000 Spanish-speaking pupils achieve more if taught through their first language and that attending an all-English schools would put Spanish-speakers at an immediate disadvantage.

BBC: US vote on bilingual schools

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.

BBC: Supply teachers face racism from schools, says agency

Many of the black elite, who send their children to English-speaking private schools or former white state schools, may accept English emerging as the sole national language.

ECONOMIST: English is dangerously dominant