Sentences with phrase «second language speakers»

Second language speakers undergo an assessment in English as a second language.

Not exact matches

NEW YORK (AP)-- The second trial for New York's former assembly speaker is likely to be a repeat of a 2015 trial but with language that will conform to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling narrowing the definition of corruption.

Student speakers included an adult education student from CUNY who said she was speaking to the crowd for the first time in English, her second language.

The programs are made available to English - language learners, immigrant students who are native speakers of the second language, and native English speakers.

Meanwhile, a language like Dutch — spoken by 27 million people — can be a disproportionately large conduit, compared with a language like Arabic, which has a whopping 530 million native and second - language speakers.

The organisers of the regatta have made a concession to non-English speakers by benevolently providing some of their articles in a second language.

Within months of living in a foreign country, a young child may speak a second language like a native speaker.

Speakers of Eskimo - Aleut languages, found in the Aleutian Islands and Greenland, inherit almost half their genes from the second wave, while the Na - Dene - speaking Chipewyan in central Canada inherit around a tenth of their genes from a third wave — although all groups can claim to have «first American» DNA (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature11258).

It probably also explains why native English speakers are so reluctant to learn a second language.

Whether you are a native English speaker or speak English as a second language, gone are the days where just being able to speak English is enough.

English - language speakers benefit from «extensive exposure to Spanish, accelerating their absorption and usage of the language to achieve early Spanish literacy; a highly academic curriculum, taught in a second language; the ability to transfer Spanish reading and writing skills to English language reading and writing after the second grade; the confidence to speak Spanish, resulting from the self - esteem and pride they gain because they are bilingual.»

ESL -(English as a Second Language) ESL is the actual teaching process of the English language to students who are not native English speakers.

Demographic reports show a recent, steady increase of students speaking English as a second language, with 50 percent of students categorized as ESOL — English for speakers of other languages.

The M.A.T. in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages is sure to go a long way toward securing gainful employment as one of California's high - demand second - language teachers.

Some schools actively seek native Spanish speakers, while others actively look for teachers who learned Spanish as a second language.

The second goal of the study was to have a positive impact on the performance of all students in the classes, such as English language learners, former English learners, and native English speakers.

English as an additional language (EAL) is a contemporary term (particularly in the United Kingdom and the rest of the European Union) for English as a second language (ESL): the use or study of the English language by non-native speakers in an English - speaking environment.

The English - only initiatives sweeping the United States are mainstreaming English language learners into content - area classes designed for native or fluent English speakers, with little, if any, English as a second language (ESL) support.

English is spoken as a first language by around 375 million and as a second language by an additional 375 million speakers in the world.

I spoke first (slides) on a topic I've been covering in differing versions this year: The extended English - language audience: moving beyond English - first speakers to the English as a second language group, the English as a third language (surprisingly large) audience and the huge market of ESL students.

It's not just the native speakers or second - language speakers, it's also those learning English.

Look at some of the features you get in this app: * Adorable graphics and easy to use interface * Multilingual language learning tool for native English speaking users * Formatted in a proven most effective way to learn and practice a second language * Each paragraph of story is presented in English with Spanish or Chinese subtitles * Optional voice read along with text by native Spanish or Chinese speaker * Automatic or manual page turn with gesture support * Music by well known songwriter, NienShen Ma * Facebook Connect * Sync with Q.L.L. (Quick Language Learning) website * More than half a million users have downloaded the language learning picture books already!

Most live in Belize City, but nearly everyone else in Belize is either a first - or second - language speaker of Creole.

As for English being FCs second language — I understand your concern but I trust that they are professional enough to get professional people (mainly native English - speakers) to do the voice acting, proof - reading etc..

To have a secondary grasp of English is, in a sense, to be classed secondary: a speaker of a secondary language, a member of a secondary culture, or a citizen of a second or third world, to put it in dated diplomacy - speak.

Given my background as a Mandarin Chinese speaker it was the perfect opportunity for me to gain work experience in my second language.

The second state language status is also ruled out to Maghi, Bhojpuri, Angika and Maithali by CM as this issue is more inclined to politics than policy matter and decisions are also taken keeping in mind the facts & figures of speakers.