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Literacy strategy fails to improve young readers.
Too many children leave primary school unable to read and write as well as they should, says UK Chief Inspector of Schools
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Oxford University Press add "Jedi", "Klingon" and "warp drive" to new Shorter English Dictionary.
"Among the writers whose literary citations appear for the first time are Tom Clancy and Nick Hornby, Helen Fielding and J K Rowling, creator of Harry Potter," says The Telegraph. But Ms Rowling's made-up word "muggle" - referring to people oblivious to the world of magic - is too new to make it this time
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Essays: Thoughts on Beauty, Influences.
Reporter Valerie Strauss asked admissions officers for examples of application essays received this year that they felt stood out by theme, tone, language, humor or other quality. Here are excerpts from some
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Mind mapping can help dyslexics.
A memory technique called mind mapping is being used to help people with dyslexia to improve their writing and exam grades
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New push to get British workers reading.
Employers are urged to help the many workers in England who cannot read, write or add up properly
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Britney Spears encourages kids to read.
The Read To Achieve concert - which was, ironically, televised - hoped to encourage parents to read to their children to promote literacy, reports The Sun
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Children's spelling worsening.
Children's spelling in England is getting worse, if the national tests for 11 year olds are anything to go by. Problem words were: Serious, surprise, nastiest, designed, regardless, attempts and individual - and especially, technique
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Anatomy of a Word: Harvard Professor Hopes to Take Away a Racial Epithet's Sting.
The word is the most supercharged word in American society. It has started fights and ended careers. It has been used maliciously by some people and lovingly by others. It is forbidden for some to use, and permitted for others. Now it's the title of a Molotov cocktail of a book by Harvard law professor Randall Kennedy - "Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word". It is likely to bring on a storm of reaction
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Chinese tipped as main language of web by 2007.
Chinese will outrank English as the most-used language on the worldwide web by 2007, according to forecasts cited at a United Nations symposium on multilingual internet addresses
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Ofsted point finger at reading hour.
Ofsted says UK primary schools must do better at teaching children how to work on their own during the literacy hour. The education watchdog says the proportion of lessons where this is unsatisfactory has risen from one in six to one in five over the last year. The findings come in its latest reports on national literacy and numeracy strategies
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Head orders extra lessons for text messaging children.
A public head schoolmaster is ordering extra English lessons because pupils' literacy is faltering due to text-messaging. Robert Repper is head of Wisbech Grammar School. He's noted worsening standards of English and thinks this is because children increasingly text-message each other. He's now ordered extra English lessons at the 600-year-old Cambridgeshire public school
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Extra English and maths classes `failed to improve standards'.
Catch-up classes for British children struggling in English and maths have failed to bring them up to the Government's required standard. A multi-million pound experiment with summer literacy and numeracy lessons for pupils lagging behind at secondary school led to fewer than half reaching Level 4, according to a study by academics at King's College, London
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Bad spellers should search elsewhere.
Job seekers have misspelled the word secretary an amazing 15 times during searches of an online careers website. Spellings ranged from 'secreatarie' to 'sectary', while the words receptionist and manager were also incorrectly typed in, often as 'recepshionist' or 'managar'. Online careers publisher Fish4jobs said more than 1,000 people spelled common job titles incorrectly in recent weeks
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Eminem IS a poet?
Eminem is obviously no stranger to DNA tests, but we'll bet the peroxided popster has never been asked to submit to a blood-letting for the reasons suggested by a Scottish concert promoter. Mark Mackie is convinced that Mister Mathers is the reincarnation of legendary Scottish poet Robert Burns
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And then what happens?.
Every story has a beginning, middle, and end. One thing happens first, something happens next, and another thing happens after that. Storytelling prompts children to track a sequence of events, follow the action of various characters, and predict plot outcomes
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Penguin Books list 15 new slang words for "cool" in dictionary.
The list of words meaning the cool according to the New Compact Penguin English Dictionary, reveals The Mirror, is: "Mesmeric, wix, sick, deep, mint, oudish, the nuts, animal, mad, cracker, crovey, heavy, large, bodashes and banging"
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Employers, business schools honing in on workers' e-mail writing skills?
Chain letters and silly jokes aren't the problem: It's the incomplete sentences, misspellings and rambling thoughts flying through cyberspace in the name of doing business
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Teacher's spelling mistakes obscure education problems.
A teacher has set tongues wagging and eyes rolling all over town. He's the Brooklyn high school teacher who sent several e-mails to the New York Post, complaining that teachers like himself are unfairly blamed for all the failures of the public schools. The catch was that Liang's messages were riddled with mistakes
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One in four NI adults 'illiterate'.
Northern Ireland's minister for higher education says almost a quarter of adults in the province face problems with reading or writing
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Ebusiness goes 'ego-surfing' - More horrific wounds on the English language.
The new edition of the Concise Oxford Dictionary contains a host of new words coined by the computer world. Scrabble players will now be able to rescue themselves from awkward corners with words like weblog and vortal. Though it would take a very talented player to use their tiles to produce some of the new words, such as 'infomediary'
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Department for Education and Skills introduces swearing lessons in school.
In the Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE) scheme, children are asked to write down as many swearwords that they can think of, explains The Telegraph
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McLanguage: Hey, it could happen (TM).
You've heard of Chicken McNuggets and the Golden Arches. They've long been trademarks identifying the McDonald's Corporation, purveyor of cheap hamburgers to most of the planet. How about the phrase "changing the face of the world", though? Or "hey, it could happen!" Or "have you had your break today"? According to the company website, McDonald's has trademarks on these too, a sign that advertising and free use of the English language are becoming increasingly incompatible in today's corporate America
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Don't Go Gently Into That SMS.
txtin iz messin, / mi headn'me englis, / try2rite essays, / they all come out txtis. / gran not plsed w/letters shes getn, / swears i wrote better / b4 comin2uni. / &she's african
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'Konglish' replaces good English .
How bad can bad English get? Very bad indeed, in the view of a commentary published in the Korea Herald, in which the writer laments the state of "Konglish", the hybrid of jazzy Korean and messy English that, "like heavy traffic is an unpleasant but tolerable side of life" in the East Asian capital
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English safe despite Web.
A leading linguist insists that that the destruction of the English language by perceived abuses on the World Wide Web was "not remotely likely"
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Zarr.com causes controversy by letting students swap essays.
"The site is being set up by a husband and wife team and both their former universities have threatened to block it from their computer systems. Hannah and Mark Reynolds insist, however, that zarr.com will provide 'very useful reference material' and that they cannot be held responsible if it is abused by cheats." - The Times...
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The Writing on the Web
What with email, chat, and incessant Web-page building, the Net has us writing more than ever. The result is a whole new way of communicating — flaws and all
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