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Putting people off coming to Britain: your pictures - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...tion-britain-ministers-gallery Media Advertising Stereotypes
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    Readers' tongue-in-cheek suggestions for ads to put off potential immgrants
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Immigration: Romanian or Bulgarian? You won't like it here - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...ion-romania-bulgaria-ministers Media Advertising Stereotypes
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    UK considers a negative ad campaign to deter potential immigrants
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ushing Science's Limits in Sign Language Lexicon - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...s-broaden-science-lexicon.html Language Language change Sign language
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    New sign language for scientific terms
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Suffolk Country Turns a Page - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...ffolk-county-turns-a-page.html Language Non-native speakers Bilingualism
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    New York country to translate official documents into 6 other languages
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Please rise for our polyglot anthem - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...e-for-our-polyglot-anthem.html Language Identity Nationalism Multilingualism
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    Iraq to have new multilingual anthem
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Low English Levels Can Hurt Countries' Progress - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...29iht-educbriefs29.html Language English Global Languages
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    Countries with poor English-language skills also have lower levels of trade, innovation and income, according to a report released last week.
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Conversations with a teleprompter - 0 views

www.newyorker.com/...tions-with-a-teleprompter.html Language Mass Communication Speeches
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    Bill Clinton's skill in making speeches
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New Life in U.S. No Longer Means New Name - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...26names.html Language Identity Race
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    Immigrants to the US are not so pressured to change their names
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They Changed Our Name at Ellis Island - 2 views

www.genealogy.com/88_donna.html Language Identity Race
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    Some common myths about why immigrants to the US changed their names
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Martin Scorsese on the Importance of Visual Literacy - 0 views

www.edutopia.org/teaching-visual-literacy-video Mass Communication Images Film
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    Director Martin Scorsese discusses the importance of visual literacy
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By Any Other Name - 0 views

www2.aes.ac.in/...By_Any_Other_Name.pdf Language Names Identity
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    Memoir by Santha Rama Rau, whose name was 'anglicized' by her teacher when she went to the Anglo-Indian school.
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The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl - 1 views

www2.aes.ac.in/...All_American_Girl.pdf Language Culture Identity
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    Elizabeth Wong's essay about the difficulty of belonging to two cultures.
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Mother Tongue by Amy Tan - 0 views

teachers.sduhsd.k12.ca.us/...mother%20tounge.pdf Language Culture Identity
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    Amy Tan's essay about her mother's 'tongue'
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Interview with Amy Tan - 0 views

www.achievement.org/...tan0int-1 Language Culture Identity
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    Interview with Amy Tan includes comments on being bi-cultural
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Wired for Books interview with Amy Tan - 0 views

www.wiredforbooks.org/...AmyTan1989.mp3 Language Culture Identity
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    audio interview with Amy Tan, author of 'The Joy Luck Club', about the relationships between four Chinese mothers and their Chinese-American daughters
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My Name by Sandra Cisneros - 1 views

cmapspublic.ihmc.us/...me%20-%20Sandra%20Cisneros.pdf Language Identity Names
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    The chapter, 'My Name', from 'The House on Mango Street'
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English is de facto global language - 1 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...de_facto_global_language.shtml Language Global Languages English Identity
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    from the BBC Forum 'Your say'
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BBC Languages - Language and Identity - 2 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...language_and_identity.shtml Language Part 1 Language Death Global languages Opinion
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    Page has many links to other topics related to Global English, including Endangered Languages, adopting words from other languages, etc.
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Men Talk by Liz Lochhead - 0 views

www.youtube.com/watch Language Stereotypes Gender
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