Fifty-One Languages, but When Does English Enter the Picture?

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Schools across Ethiopia teach in fifty-one different languages, and students learn in at least two different languages during the course of their school years. The complexities don’t stop there, and, researchers Solomon Areaya and Daniel Tefera found, they include much stronger support among parents than...