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  • Africa [r]: Continent stretching over the equator, hosting deserts, tropical jungles and savannah as well as over fifty nations; population about 900,000,000. [e]
  • Australia [r]: Continent in the Southern Hemisphere and the federal parliamentary nation that occupies it. [e]
  • Bob Dylan [r]: American singer-songwriter beginning in the 1960's and later a member of the Travelling Wilburys. [e]
  • Church of Scotland [r]: The national church of Scotland (Presbyterian), founded in the mid-16th century by John Knox as part of the Scottish Reformation. [e]
  • Côte d'Ivoire [r]: West African republic, centre of coffee and cocoa production, with Yamoussoukro its capital; achieved independence from France in 1960 (population about 21 million). [e]
  • Homeschooling in the United States [r]: Education or learning which takes place outside formal institutional structures or settings such as schools which is designed to meet the educational needs of young school-age children and to satisfy the requirements of state compulsory education statutes. [e]
  • Joan of Arc, memory of [r]: An examination of the wide range of views and interpretations regarding Joan of Arc's life as seen in the eyes of her perceivers over the centuries. [e]
  • Language attrition [r]: The loss of a first or second language or a portion of that language by individuals. [e]
  • Manga [r]: Japanese or Japanese-style comics. [e]
  • McGuffey Readers [r]: A set of highly influential school textbooks used in the 19th and early 20th centuries in the elementary grades in the United States. [e]
  • Open access [r]: The free, immediate online access to the results of research, coupled with the right to use those results in new and innovative ways. [e]
  • Printing press [r]: Device for making multiple paper copies of text, invented by Johannes Gutenberg in the 1440s. [e]
  • Project Gutenberg [r]: A massive, fully free online library of books and literature, primarily the full texts of public domain works. [e]
  • Quantitative literacy [r]: The knowledge and skills required to apply arithmetic operations (United States of America Department of Education). [e]
  • Reading [r]: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Reading (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
  • Regional dialect levelling [r]: The process whereby the local dialects of a region become less distinctive as a result of mixing with each other. [e]
  • Sociolinguistics [r]: Branch of linguistics concerned with language in social contexts - how people use language, how it varies, how it contributes to users' sense of identity, etc. [e]
  • Spoken language [r]: An example of language produced using some of the articulatory organs, e.g. the mouth, vocal folds or lungs, or intended for production by these organs; alternatively, the entire act of communicating verbally - what people mean or intend, the words they use, their accent, intonation and so on. [e]
  • Stephen Krashen [r]: emeritus professor of education at the University of Southern California; his research concerns second language acquisition (SLA), bilingual education, literacy and neurolinguistics. [e]
  • Tajik alphabet [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • United States of America [r]: a large nation in middle North America with a republic of fifty semi-independent states, a nation since 1776. [e]
  • Word (language) [r]: A unit of language, often regarded as 'minimally distinctive' and used to build larger structures such as phrases; languages vary in how distinctive word units are and how much they may be modified. [e]
  • Written language [r]: The communication and representation of a language by means of a writing system. [e]