Sentences with phrase «languages in a global world»

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

Smith explained in a statement how they've managed to progress global access to God's Word: «New strategies, methods, tools, and resources are empowering the local church and Christians to translate God's Word into more languages than at any time in world history.»

World Dating Partners is a global private label dating platform available in multiple languages.

The franchise spawned four films that grossed over $ 3 billion at the global box office, more than 80 million books translated into over 50 languages around the world, a mobile game and themed attractions in the Lionsgate Zone of the Motiongate theme park in Dubai.

In this article, Tochon reviews research on world languages education, arguing that language education plays a key role in preparing students for a global economy and communitIn this article, Tochon reviews research on world languages education, arguing that language education plays a key role in preparing students for a global economy and communitin preparing students for a global economy and community.

Employability Minister Jamie Hepburn said: «Learning languages in today's global, multi-cultural world is becoming more crucial than ever.

In a 2006 article, Citizenship, Identity and Education: Examining the public purposes of schools in an age of globalization, Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Fernando Reimers stressed the importance of teaching tolerance and global values, as well as developing foreign language skills and knowledge of world history, cultures, and geographIn a 2006 article, Citizenship, Identity and Education: Examining the public purposes of schools in an age of globalization, Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Fernando Reimers stressed the importance of teaching tolerance and global values, as well as developing foreign language skills and knowledge of world history, cultures, and geographin an age of globalization, Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Fernando Reimers stressed the importance of teaching tolerance and global values, as well as developing foreign language skills and knowledge of world history, cultures, and geography.

The schools emphasize global themes and proficiency in at least one foreign language (or a world language, as it's increasingly being called in educational circles).

Last year, all staff, including language - immersion instructional assistants, participated in a book study of Educating for Global Competence: Preparing Our Youth to Engage in the World (PDF).

Reimers noted that he sees an opportunity to develop students» global competencies by creating a positive disposition toward cultural differences; an ability to speak, understand, and think in languages outside of the country in which they are born; and a deep knowledge and understanding of world history, geography, and global dimensions such as health, climate, and economics.

«It's absolutely essential in this global economy that if we want our children to be successful as adults, as businesspeople, as citizens of the world, they need to have a greater understanding and appreciation of other languages, of cultures, history, customs, and religions,» says former Washington governor Gary Locke, who would have sent his own children to Stanford if he lived nearby.

A joint venture of the Financial Times and IE Business School, it brings world - renowned business information and journalism, leading academic faculty and a global network of educators to co-create customized corporate learning and leadership development programmes in multiple languages, to almost any sector, anywhere in the world.

Our students are united in their thirst for a UK education which embraces language, history, cultural and global understanding of each individual's place in the world.

School standards minister Nick Gibb said: «Mandarin Chinese is the most spoken language in the world, so this programme plays a crucial role in helping these pupils achieve the fluency they need to succeed in an increasingly global economy.

Vicky Gough, Schools Adviser at the British Council said: «With more than one billion Mandarin Chinese speakers in the world, it is vital that more of our young people learn this valuable language in order to give them the advantage they need to live in a global society and compete in a global economy.

English is the official language of the global business world, and employers want to hire people who have a solid skill base in it.

It seems, unfortunately, that the need to study languages to access an increasingly global world is not enough to encourage students to take up learning languages in English schools.

I coordinate the Spanish Immersion program in our district, Mendon - Upton Regional, and feel passionate about promoting world language programs, technology, and connecting with local and global partners.

Through our rigorous International Baccalaureate curriculum, world - class language acquisition program and multicultural community, we create internationally - minded and critical - thinking innovators who successfully collaborate in our increasingly global, interconnected world and who are poised to shape the 21st century.

«Our goal is to help students become global citizens through the acquisition of two languages and broadening their perspectives and understanding of other cultures as well as empowering them to take action against injustice or to change existing conditions in the world.

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Our library will give members of small language communities access to books written in their mother tongues.Eventually, Write Our World hopes to offer a networking space where students can interact and even collaborate on global projects.

Introduced in May 2010, AmazonCrossing uses customer feedback and other data from Amazon sites around the world to identify exceptional foreign language books deserving of a wider, global audience.

With a growing catalogue of millions of titles in 97 languages, Kobo is a truly global eReading service for booklovers of all kinds, in every part of the world.

In addition to my degree and certification as a medical language specialist, I've authored educational programs for one of the world's largest online learning institutions, targeting health - related global training for thousands of students obtaining career credentials.

The mother tongue of 400 million people, an official language on four continents and the fourth most commonly spoken language in the world, Spanish boasts huge global importance.

No matter where you are in the world, our Global Assist ® team will provide the help you need in your own language, around the clock.

«As the global gamer population continues to become very richly diverse across geographies, cultures, languages, genders, ethnicities, and so on, those who create games need to accept the fact that this is the world in which we live.

For this year's screenings in SoundScape Park on the 7,000 square - foot outdoor projection wall of the New World Center, David Gryn has selected films that engage with the diverse and global language of dance, as well as the connection between movement and music.

Epitomizing art worldliness before there truly was a global art world (he spoke five languages), Castelli ran his shop until his passing in 1999, and over those four decades he debuted to the world an astonishing range of artists: Warhol, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Donald Judd, Cy Twombly, Richard Serra, Joseph Kosuth, Claes Oldenburg, James Rosenquist, Richard Artschwager, Dan Flavin, Bruce Nauman, and Ed Ruscha are just a few.

The course will last six full days and is designed to produce well - rounded arts professionals with a global perspective who not only understand the language and ideas behind curation but can also apply those ideas in a variety of real - world contexts.

The artists included in Cities of Conviction use visual language to explore the pertinent cultural issues facing Saudi Arabia and its citizens, which are in parallel with those facing artists from Utah and, in a world becoming ever more global, the artists also address the dilution of specific elements of culture.

While the global art world has arrived on China's shores - including biennials in Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, and the annual Pingyoa Photography Festival - contemporary artists in China are still relatively isolated, by language and geography, from Western influences.

The name Dunya, meaning world or universe in many languages, reflects the global focus of the award and the shared vision of the MCA and the Shulamit Nazarian Foundation to represent diverse perspectives and bring attention to new and daring voices.

«One need only consider Abstract Expressionism, for just a moment, as just another style to see with a great deal of clarity that, in the Post World War II period, geometric abstraction, or op art, or hard edge painting, or whatever you want to call it was, in fact, the dominant global idiom of that era, the true cosmopolitan language of art.

Rooted in museum founder Duncan Phillips's belief in bringing together «congenial spirits among the artists from different parts of the world and from different periods of time,» Conversations demonstrates his conviction that art is a universal language and advances one of the Phillips's primary institutional goals — to foster a global conversation and enliven exchange among people of all backgrounds through the language of modern and contemporary art.

For people in the developed world, the arcane language and wonky procedures of the United Nations» climate change negotiations can obscure the existential threat global warming poses to low - lying islands and countries that permanently teeter on the edge of drought and famine.

The Charlotte office will also serve as an important element of Integreon's global network of award - winning service centers which specialize in providing high quality professional support for law firms and corporate legal departments around the world, including support in more than 50 of the world's languages.

The IMLS has also recently announced that it offers real estate websites in 90 languages that combines the features of a local real estate site with its two coded IMLS lead capture deliveries already integrated to make life simple for agents in the USA and around the world so that any agent can fully participate in this global initiative.