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World Service,15 Jun 2013,26 mins

Learning English in the Workplace

Boston Calling

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Businesses in the US are seeing the benefits of helping their immigrant workers to learn to speak English and are teaching them language skills. Also on the programme: some European universities go English-only in the classroom. And, in light of the US government surveillance scandal, we ask if we’re living in the future as predicted by George Orwell in his novel 1984. (Image: Learning English in the workplace)

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