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  English-language learner   (often abbreviated as   ELL ) is a term used in some English-speaking countries such as the   United States   and   Canada   to describe a person who is learning the   English language   and has a native language that is not English. Some   educational   advocates, especially in the United States, classify these students as non-native English speakers or emergent bilinguals. [ 1 ]   Various other terms are also used to refer to students who are not proficient in English, such as   English as a second language (ESL) , English as an additional language (EAL), limited English proficient (LEP), culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD), non-native English speaker, bilingual students, heritage language, emergent bilingual, and language-minority students. The legal term that is used in federal legislation is 'limited English proficient'. [ 2 ] The models of instruction and  assessment  of...
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 Many English words have changed their meaning over time – for example, “awful” used to mean ‘inspiring wonder’ and was a short version of “full of awe”, whereas ‘nice’ used to mean “silly”. The first English dictionary was written in 1755. The oldest English word that is still in use is “town”.
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 The word “Goodbye” originally comes from an Old English phrase meaning “god be with you”. Etymologically, Great Britain means “great land of the tattooed”. There are seven ways to spell the sound ‘ee’ in English. This sentence contains all of them: “He believed Caesar could see people seizing the seas”.
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 It is the only major language that doesn’t have any organisation guiding it – as opposed to the French Académie française, the Spanish Real Academia Española and the German Rat für deutsche Rechtschreibung. These organisations are responsible for controlling the evolution of their respective language in terms of usage, vocabulary, and grammar. The most common adjective used in English is “good”. The most commonly used noun is “time”. The word “set” has the highest number of definitions.
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 The original name for butterfly was flutterby. About 4,000 words are added to the dictionary each year. The two most common words in English are I and you. 11% of the entire English language is just the letter E. The English language is said to be one of the happiest languages in the world – oh, and the word “happy” is used 3 times more often than the word “sad”!
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  English actually originates from what is now called north west Germany and the Netherlands. The phrase “long time no see” is believed to be a literal translation of a Native American or Chinese phrase as it is not grammatically correct. “Go!” is the shortest grammatically correct sentence in English. Find out some of the longest word in the English language.
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  E’ is the most common letter in the English language  Did you know that the letter “e” in the English language is the most commonly used letter? It appears in approximately 11% of all words in the English language, which is about 6,000 more words than the runner-up letter, “A”. You probably use this letter a lot without even realizing it! It is the letter which is usually stuck on a keyboard and is also the second most popular key after the space bar. This letter appears in many common words like “time” and “be”, as well as in pronouns like “he”, “she”, “me”, and “we”, and tens of thousands of words that end in “-ed” and “-es”. 
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