Association of English language schools in Australia
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English Australia, formerly known as the ELICOS Association of Australia, is an industry association of English language schools for students from overseas studying in Australia.
ELICOS stands for English Language Intensive Courses for Overseas Students and is designed for students who need to learn English before commencing formal studies in Australia.
AustralianEnglish (AusE, AusEng, AuE, AuEng, en-AU) is the set of varieties of the English language native to Australia. It is the country's common language...
EnglishAustralians, also known as Anglo-Australians, are Australians whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in England. In the 2021 census, 8,385...
AustralianEnglish is a major variety of the English language spoken throughout Australia. Most of the vocabulary of AustralianEnglish is shared with...
EnglishAustralia, formerly known as the ELICOS Association of Australia, is an industry association of English language schools for students from overseas...
Australian Aboriginal English (AAE or AbE) is a cover term used for the complex, rule-governed varieties of English used by a large section of the Indigenous...
delimiters. AustralianEnglish is relatively homogeneous when compared with British and American English. The major varieties of AustralianEnglish are sociocultural...
in the world. AustralianEnglish is notable for vowel length contrasts which are absent from most English dialects. The AustralianEnglish vowels /ɪ/, /e/...
commonly used in everyday AustralianEnglish. While many dialects of English make use of diminutives and hypocorisms, AustralianEnglish uses them more extensively...
South AustralianEnglish is the variety of English spoken in the Australian state of South Australia. As with the other regional varieties within Australian...
Western AustralianEnglish is the English spoken in the Australian state of Western Australia (WA). Although generally the same as most other Australian English...
and Canadian and Australian at about 5%. One controversy in the English Wikipedia concerns which national variety of the English language is to be preferred...
Southern American English and African-American (Vernacular) English), youse (found in AustralianEnglish), or ye (in Hiberno-English). In the third person...
English word – for example, the Auslan sign for a 'fly' (insect) may be used in Signed English for the verb (to) 'fly'. In Australia, 'Signed English'...
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania...
Anglo-Indian Anglo-Irish Anglo-Scot English American English Argentine EnglishAustralianEnglish Brazilian English Chilean English Canadian New Zealand European...
This article lists places in Australia that were given names of places in England by English emigrants and explorers. It also includes place names where...
at the time of first European contact. English is the majority language of Australia today. Although English has no official legal status, it is the...
English South AustralianEnglish Western AustralianEnglish Torres Strait English Fiji English New Zealand English: Māori English, Pasifika English, Southland...
often in Hiberno-English, due to the letter's pronunciation in the Irish language The usual form in Hiberno-English and AustralianEnglish The letter J did...
English (26 March 1949 – 9 March 2016) was an English-born Australian singer, songwriter, musician and actor. He emigrated from England to Australia with...
This is a list of English words derived from Australian Aboriginal languages. Some are restricted to AustralianEnglish as a whole or to certain regions...
the English-speaking world. These dialects include (but are not limited to) American, Australian, British (containing Anglo-English, Scottish English and...
American English American and British English spelling differences AustralianEnglish British Sign Language Canadian English Commonwealth English Hiberno-English...
Tim English (born 10 August 1997) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Western Bulldogs in the Australian Football League (AFL)...
incorrectly predicted in 1877 that within a century American English, AustralianEnglish and British English would be mutually unintelligible (A Handbook of Phonetics)...
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