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Vision of Humanity - 0 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 26 Aug 14
     
    "Vision of Humanity is a strong proponent of the need to further study, advocate and act on peace. It groups together a number of interrelated initiatives focused on global peace which enjoy the support of a wide range of philanthropists, business people, politicians, religious leaders and intellectuals. It brings a strategic approach to raising the world's attention and awareness around the importance of peace to humanity's survival in the 21st century" (A word from our founder, Steve Killelea, ¶3, 2014.08.26).
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English as lingua franca gives Singapore a fighting chance | Features | Malay Mail Online - 0 views

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  • Adopting the international language of business, diplomacy, and science and technology was about the only way this resource-less tiny island could guarantee its survival after losing its economic hinterland in Malaysia. Unemployment was at 14 per cent and rising.
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      Paul Beaufait on 25 Mar 15
       
      Main article, ¶2
  • Just as importantly, picking this race-neutral language demonstrated his government’s anti-communalistic stance, helping to keep the peace in a newborn nation made up of a polyglot-settler populace who had struggled for years with racial and religious strife.
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      Paul Beaufait on 25 Mar 15
       
      Main article, ¶4
  • 
For the sake of building “a community that feels together”, Lee pushed through the bilingualism policy in 1966. All students had to learn their “mother tongue”, Mandarin, Malay or Tamil, depending on their race, as a second language, and this became a compulsory and critical examination subject in 1969.
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      Paul Beaufait on 25 Mar 15
       
      Bilingualism, ¶1
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But the various initiatives Lee rolled out in subsequent years to put proficiency in mother tongue on par with that in English were to divide opinions, especially among the Chinese, even up to the present. Indeed, he described bilingualism in 2004 as the “most difficult” policy he had had to implement.
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      Paul Beaufait on 25 Mar 15
       
      Imperfect implementation, ¶1
  • Paul Beaufait on 25 Mar 15
     
    This article recap's policies that made English a national language of education and made other official languages required second languages.
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Welcome | Global Issues in Language Education - 0 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 24 Jul 14
     
    The Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT) GILE SIG "works to promote global awareness, international understanding, social responsibility and action to solve world problems through content-based language teaching drawing on fields such as global education, peace education, environmental education and human rights education" (Main page, Welcome, ¶1, 2014.07.10).
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