Around The Web On TEFL: July 16
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- The web is responding to the Simplified Spelling Society’s demand to alter English spelling…starting here.
- Thank goodness! Ginormous and some other words which Firefox spell check still doesn’t recognize have been added to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
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One Texas school puts native English speakers and native Spanish speakers together in class in an effort to teach all students both languages.
- There is a call for reform for English language learner requirements in No Child Left Behind.
- Some strong views on the roles of English and French in education in Cameroon; perhaps along the same lines, at least somewhat, as this article on the decline of German as a language of research and academia.