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EAL, ESL, EFL, MFL! What's the difference (and does it really matter?)
There are myriad terms used to describe languages in education, and it's often seen as a minor issue to choose a title for a language...
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Home language curricula - where should it come from?
Thus we are faced with the bizarre scenario of school successfully transforming fluent speakers of foreign languages into monolingual...