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2 A Letter From Kurt Landgraf Dear Colleague: Here is a remarkable fact about adolescent English Learners in U.S. public schools: more than half were born and educated in the United States. That so many native- born teenage students are still learning the national language underscores the need to address language gaps in our schools. English learners are now the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. KC12 population, numbering about 5.5 million. In this issue of ETS Innovations, we explore these and other aspects of English Language Learning and Assessment around the world. Our lead story discusses the expansion of ETS'

s English Language research to include younger English learners in the United States. We are also turning our attention to younger learners in countries in which English is not the native language. Elsewhere, we highlight the growing interest among ministries of education in blended learning, the combination of interpersonal classroom lessons and interactive, multisensory online experiences. We also look at English as the global lingua franca, reflected in the use of the TOEIC? test to help recruit staff and volunteers at major international events such as the Olympics, and at the role of English teaching and proficiency testing in the global workplace. English has long been the world'

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50 years, ETS has been developing high- quality, research-based assessments and services to measure English proficiency to help improve the skills and prospects of learners worldwide. Regards, Kurt M. Landgraf President and CEO

2 inside Copyright?2012byEducationalTestingService.Allrightsreserved.ETS,theETSlogo,LISTENING.LEARNING.LEADING.,PROPELL,TOEFL,TOEFLIBTand TOEICareregisteredtrademarksofEducationalTesting Service(ETS).TOEFLJUNIORandTOEICBRIDGEaretrademarksofETS.APandSATareregisteredtrademarksofCollegeBoardInc.Allothertrademarksarethepropertyoftheirrespectiveowners.18742 What DoYouThink? Tell us what you think about ETS Innovations. Your feedback will help ensure that Innovations addresses the issues that are important to our readers. Email suggestions to the editors at [email protected] Editorial Staff Rich Pliskin, Editor Jeff Johnson, ContributingWriter Marita Gray, Senior Designer William Petzinger, Project Director Josephine Cascio,Traffic Manager Editorial Board Rob Adams, Creative Director Karen Bogan, Internal Communications Leader Richard Coley, Executive Director, ETS Center for Research on Human Capital FrancisD.Gómez, Strategic Alliances Executive JohnKochanski, Director, Global Channel Expansion Anne-Marie Garrity, Strategic Brand Marketing Manager William Monaghan, Proposal Development Manager Doug Ronson, President, ETS Canada Edward Shea, Director, Research KellyOdenheimer, Executive Director, Communications Starting Earlier: English Language Learning and Assessment Workplace English: One Company'

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