In Britain, a school where 60 per cent of pupils speak English as a second language has invested in electronic translators for every child so that they can communicate with teachers。
　　在英国的中小学中，不讲英语的外来学生所占的比重能占到60%，为方便师生交流，电子翻译器将成为各学校必不可少的工具。
　　Manor Park Primary in Aston, Birmingham, which has 384 pupils of 32 different ethnicities, is the first school in Britain to provide translators for all of its children and to make the tools an integral part of every lesson。
　　位于英国伯明翰的阿斯顿马诺公园小学，有384名学生来自于32个民族。该学校只好为每位学生配备电子翻译器，以方便他们与教师交流。成为英国首例将电子工具作为上课必备的学校。
　　Headmaster Jason Smith said the software had transformed his school and given staff the opportunity to communicate with children. 'We have a very diverse school - at any one time there are upwards of 30 different languages,' he added。
　　位于英国伯明翰的阿斯顿马诺公园小学，有384名学生来自于32个民族。该学校只好为每位学生配备电子翻译器，以方便他们与教师交流。成为英国首例将电子工具作为上课必备的学校。
　　The school pays 700 pounds a year for the software, which comes with onteacher-screen "avatars", or characters, based on the background of the pupils. These include an Asian man, a white Eastern European and a black African man. Plans are also in the pipeline to include a Chinese woman and a burka-wearing Muslim。
　　为此，学校每年花费700英镑使用这种电子翻译器，并根据学生的文化背景，配备线上虚拟教师。学校已为此设计了一名亚洲男性、一位东欧白人与一名非洲黑人男子，并计划设计一名中国女性与一名穿着罩袍的穆斯林。
　　The technology enables teachers to type messages to pupils which are then translated into the 30 native tongues of children。
　　通过这项技术，教师把要表达的信息打成字输入翻译器，然后翻译成那些不懂英语儿童各自总计约30种母语。
　　And with figures showing that one in six primary pupils speaks a different language at home - double the number ten years ago - the technology could soon become a permanent feature in many more schools。
　　而统计数据显示，在每6个小学生中，就有1人在家中说其他的语言，这个数字比10年前翻了一番，电子翻译器将很快在英国多所学校成为常用的工具。
　　Latest figures from the Department for Education show that 905,610 children do not speak English as their first language. This figure has risen by 42,750 in a year, and accounts for 16 per cent of pupils in primary schools and 11.6 per cent in secondaries。
　　英国教育部最新数据显示，有多达90万5610名小学生英语不是第一语言。这个数字在一年间上升了4万2750人，占小学生总数的16%，中学生的11.6%。