HONG KONG -- A shortage of places at schools that teach in English is forcing some expat families to leave and impacting corporations.

Aquino’s first language is Spanish, but she drilled her children exclusively in spoken English in their early years for fear that speaking Spanish would muddy the waters.

In school, children need English to perform well on standardized tests. Early adolescents tend to reject their first language in favor of speaking mostly in English with friends.

The study also examined whether family language (English only, bilingual English/Spanish or Spanish only) impacts the acquisition of spoken language in implanted children.

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Los Angeles schools will now teach both American Sign Language and spoken English to younger students. The policy change is meant to correct a history of suppressing ASL. But some say it goes too far.

President Donald Trump declared, by executive order, that English is the official language of the United States. To enforce ...

But the researchers caution that many children speaking English as an additional language still fell short of class averages in Year 2, particularly those with weaker English skills at reception.