Sentences with phrase «for world language»

Eligible seventh and eighth graders participate in a language immersion trip or exchange for each world language.

He has served as a teacher, building level administrator, and district level supervisor for world language and is now in his 20th year as a middle level educator.

The federal government recognized the critical need for world language in the 2005 Call to Action for National Foreign Language Capabilities, a historic gathering of minds from across government, industry, language associations, and academia that resulted in a shared vision for the need and imperative of world language instruction.

In this post by Edutopia blogger Don Doehla you'll find a selection of great apps for the world language classroom.

Online quiz programs weren't designed for world language classes, so we have five tips for keeping students focused on the target language.

For the world language classroom, consider blending favorite old apps (like the Evernote suite) with Word Reference and apps specifically designed for the language being studied.

For world language students, make a brief tape of one or more segments of a radio or TV program in the language being studied.

For a world language class, students can interview each other outside of the classroom to practice authentic dialogue.

The West Hartford school board cut funding for two vacant positions — a department supervisor for world languages and an instructional coach — earlier this week.

Let us know how your tech integration for world languages is going.

Not exact matches

«We find the best people in the world and either bring them to Canada to have them work for us in Nova Scotia — we speak more than 10 languages in our facility here — or we base them throughout the world to represent our company in all the countries in which we operate,» says Deveau.

As the second blog post puts it — in the opaque and passive - aggressive language favored by the world's largest social network --» We anticipate that this update may cause reach and referral traffic to decline for some Pages.»

Cuddy focuses a lot on the business world and how body language is helpful for us here and the possibilities seem to have no boundaries.

(This is what passes for strong language in the world of central banking.)

The company's biggest audience to - date came during the 2014 FIFA World Cup, when NeuLion worked with Univision to stream matches for the Spanish - language audience in the U.S., pulling in a collective 10 million unique views over the tournament, including 1.6 million for the most - watched match.

In some countries this policy is not always possible, and ISS needs to manage a workforce from different parts of the world: Its British employees, for example, speak 187 languages combined.

From intuiting emotions from language to resolving food shortages in the developing world, these young entrepreneurs have big goals — and even bigger plans for achieving them.

He has written three books on body language and he's the person world leaders come to for help with their communication.

He was determined that the R. Kelly the world would know — the one who would sell more than 30 million albums, have 36 Billboard Hot 100 hits, invent his own strange musical language, write hits for countless others, and conceive one of the weirdest syntheses of video and music of all time, Trapped in the Closet — would be someone else.

«It has always saddened me that Canada is probably one of the only school systems in the world (or at least the world wealthy enough for full, functioning educational systems) that does not require at least an attempt to learn a second language.»

Google has been working for years on teaching machines to understand language, make sense of images and videos, and navigate real - world environments.

We've officially launched our world - first Chinese - language iPhone app for international residential real estate...... allowing wealthy Chinese to surf 2.4 million... Continue reading >

We've officially launched our world - first Chinese - language iPhone app for international residential real estate...... allowing wealthy Chinese to surf 2.4 million... Continua a leggere >

Braintree made it so easy for our marketplaces to accept payments in any language and any country around the world.

We added a few new names to the portfolio for the quarter: Grupo Televisa, a Mexican media company and the most dominant producer of Spanish - language content in the world; SMFG (Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group), the third largest bank in Japan; and Wolseley, the world's largest traded distributor of plumbing and heating products and leading supplier of building materials based in the U.K.

Juwai.com has launched the first Chinese - language mobile app in the world for global properties, reports OPP Connect (15 March 2014).

Too often, however, she is content to settle for the path of least resistance, language and images gathered not from authentic life in the fallen world but from the smooth pandering of liberal mainline sermons.

Since language is not, like mathematics, a purely imaginative intellectual construct, but is a means for understanding the real world, its patterns must in some sense represent the way things really are.

Theology, I believe, has special responsibility for the symbols, images, the language, used for expressing the relationship between God and the world in every age.

Now, however, as the scriptures of the world have been translated into English and many other western languages, we can draw upon the insights of the scriptures of the world for our theological reflection.

Therefore, Bonhoeffer calls for a new language which will be capable of renewing and changing the world:

What the real world is like, or even whether there is any such world apart from our ideas or language about it are, for some scientists, now irrelevant questions.

For this reason no better language has yet appeared in the new world to replace that which we have received from the heritage that has made us.

For several decades, Charlie was probably the most widely known and beloved figure in the world — not only because he was a master clown communicating through the universal language of pantomime, but because he grappled comically with universal human problems.

The whole reason Humanity is plagued by tribalism is because once upon a time, we all spoke the same language and worked together to build a city with a tower for the world.

This is confirmed with the distribution of this book that is in over 2500 languages, and has been sent all over the world for reading and teaching.

Alternatively, one might say that religious symbols (or myths or narratives or languages) so shape the way we understand the world that they quite fundamentally form what we value for human beings and the cosmos.

No respected linguist anywhere in the World traces languages back to the Tower of Babel, the creationists» explanation for different languages.

Bultmann's project of demythologizing, he thinks, didn't go far enough, for he still spoke of an «other side» or «other world» to which mythological language, however inadequately, points.

Since then the English language serves as a conveyor belt upon which ideas manufactured in Tübingen, Basel and Heidelberg — or in Lyon, São Paulo and Uppsala — are carried to the rest of the world, inspection of the machinery for possible faulty operation now and again might help to avert a breakdown along the way.

To trust the Bible, to let it define our world and provide a language for thinking about the world, can transform our lives.

The now deceased king would be horrified to learn how Muslims around the world point to their reading of the Koran in their own language as a key reason for leaving Islam.

The capacities for abstract reasoning, symbolic language, self - and death - awareness set mankind apart from the rest of the biological world.

The ironic and indirect ways of affirming and denying — God bless the Czar and keep him far, far away — modes of speaking that are so important for Jewish humanism, are found in Yiddish, a plastic language that hung like a long suspension bridge over the chasm that separated the world of an isolated, vulnerable religious minority from the dangerous Gentile - dominated majority culture.

Since for the primitive mentality the world of symbolization was far more inclusive than that of practical adjustment to the environment, it would be surprising if so pervasive a factor as language were not a part and product of it.

For example, Paul was able to travel the Mediterranean world on good roads, without changing language, without changing currency, without showing his passport at a single border crossing — something that has been impossible ever since the Roman peace collapsed.

John has another such parable, in which the thought takes a deeper turn: «A grain of wheat remains a solitary grain unless it falls into the ground and dies; but if it dies, it bears a rich harvest»; 27 and then, with an echo of Luke's language about «hating» one's own life, «The man who loves himself is lost, but he who hates himself [in this world] will be kept safe [for eternal life].»

Looking at this side of the ambiguity, we see a church in which many first - world Christians of our day could feel comfortable and undisturbed: a church that lives without question or resistance in a state founded on violence and made prosperous by the exploitation of less fortunate nations; a church that accepts various perquisites from that state as its due; a church where changing jobs for the sake of peace and justice is seldom considered; a church that constantly speaks in the language of war; a church given to eloquent invective in its internal disputes and against outside opponents; a church quite sure that God will punish the wicked.

Whatever one may think of Girard (and I think highly of him), one can only be grateful for the new confidence he has given theological language to do descriptive work for shaping the Church's witness to the world.

Bultmann is here asking us to adopt the nonmythological language of Heidegger as having currency for today's world.