[BITList] Fwd: ENGLAND!!!

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  In Fremantle we seem to have one school where all the migrants attend 
school classes to learn english before being allocated to their next school
frank

On 7/7/2010 4:18 PM, John Feltham wrote:
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> A retrograde step.
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> They should learn English - they live there.
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> ooroo
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>   The school with 30 languages where teachers talk to pupils through a
>   computer translator
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> By DAILY MAIL REPORTER 
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> Last updated at 5:42 AM on 7th July 2010
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> A school where 60 per cent of pupils speak English as a second 
> language has invested in electronic translators for every child so 
> they can communicate with teachers.
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> Manor Park Primary in Aston, Birmingham, which has 384 pupils of 32 
> different ethnicities, is the first school in Britain to provide 
> translators for all of its children and to make the tools an integral 
> part of every lesson.
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> The technology enables teachers to type messages to pupils which are 
> then translated into the 19 native tongues of children with no English.
>
> Helping hand: The Talking Tutor has been given to every pupil at Manor 
> Park Primary School in Aston, Birmingham with half of those unable to 
> speak English
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> Helping hand: The Talking Tutor has been given to every pupil at Manor 
> Park Primary School in Aston, Birmingham with half of those unable to 
> speak English
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> Another 11 languages are spoken by pupils who have some English.
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> And with figures showing that one in six primary pupils speaks a 
> different language at home - double the number ten years ago - the 
> technology could soon become a permanent feature in many more schools.
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> The 'Talking Tutor' can verbally translate English into 25 languages 
> including Polish, Urdu, Pakistani and Chinese. A further 200 languages 
> can be translated on-screen.
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> Teachers type a message into a computer and the virtual tutor then 
> reads the message out to the pupil in their native tongue. The pupil 
> types a response which is read to the teacher by the tutor.
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> The software claims to be 95 per cent accurate as it uses ' 
> contextchecking technology' which gives the meaning of the message 
> rather than a verbatim translation.
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> Headmaster Jason Smith said the software had transformed his school 
> and given staff the opportunity to communicate with children.
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> 'We have a very diverse
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> Read more: 
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