Sentences with phrase «while studying their language»

While studying their language and culture, Andrea Bender and Sieghard Beller, anthropologists at the University of Bergen in Norway, were astonished to find a mathematical system that seems to mix base - 10 and base - 2.

Not exact matches

While there has been longstanding interest in the study of Asia and Asian languages in Canadian post-secondary institutions, the most promising development in «Asian studies» in recent years is not the expansion of «area studies» or linguistic / cultural programs, important as they are.

Turgidity of language and argument belies its usefulness for the general reader, while its essentially descriptive character prevents the manifestation of anything profoundly new in relation to the ever - increasing corpuso f Newman studies that would require it to be essential reading for the scholar or expert.

And if you're a pastor who saw the value of exegetical research while in seminary but no longer have the time to do it each week, BibleWorks can help you continue the process of studying the original languages, even if you're short on time or a bit rusty on all the details of language study.

While these are properly regarded as special subjects of study and are taught as separate disciplines, skill in reasoning and in the use of language is also a necessary aspect of every other intellectual discipline.

While advancing to STL - level courses brought new opportunities, like studying Church Fathers and Scholastic theologians in their original languages, it also brought a new sense of isolation.

They give up their old friends, interests, desires, hobbies, and tastes, and instead hang out just with other Christians while studying an ancient book and speaking an arcane language that nobody else understands.

The Rainforest Alliance curricula are unique in that it teaches language arts, math, science, social studies and the arts while addressing the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for English language arts and mathematics, and the Next Generation Science Standards.

So while it's crazy to me that even after 2 years of studying Chinese full time, I had still never learned the word router, I was still encouraged to know that I could get by with my current language level and a dictionary.

While these findings are certainly important to language - development researchers who are seeking to tease out how, exactly, babies come to acquire language, it's important for parents to know that the results of this study shouldn't significantly affect how they help their children pick up new words, although it might help explain why babies pick up certain words in the order that they do.

The Nurse Family Partnership model showed a significantly better detection rate of language delays, 10 while one study of the Hawaii Healthy Start Program did not show evidence of preventing language delays or improving early identification.27

While English is compulsory in secondary schools today, the indigenous languages are not even though a child must study one of these languages.

He said, «While the former in its nomenclature and innovative curriculum demonstrated the urgency and possibility of decolonising the study of literature in our environment, the latter equally acknowledged the necessity of appreciating the uniqueness of studying and using English in a second language environment.

«While it is encouraging to see the rising uptake in maths and single sciences, it is worrying that once again there are falling numbers studying languages.

While no program yet exists to allow students to learn to program using natural language, this prototype and user studies indicate that it is possible.

While a clinician may find it difficult to parse whether a patient's stilted conversational manner is rooted in a lack of emotional connection or problems forming words, a brain scan in Belger's study made it clear, for example, that particular symptoms were more closely associated with disruption in the brain's emotional processing areas, whereas other symptoms were more closely associated with regions responsible for language and motor control.

Using data from National Database for Autism Research (NDAR), lead author Kristina Denisova, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at CUMC and Fellow at the Sackler Institute, studied 71 high and low risk infants who underwent two functional Magnetic Resonance imaging brain scans either at 1 - 2 months or at 9 - 10 months: one during a resting period of sleep and a second while native language was presented to the infants.

Today, he still combines his interests in language and science, teaching courses in scientific communication, energy policy, and other subjects at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies of the University of Washington in Seattle, while also writing books.

A 1981 study showed that preschoolers use more complex language while playing make - believe than during ordinary conversation.

To better understand this phenomenon, Joy Hirsch and her colleagues at the Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center in New York City studied two groups of bilingual people: early bilinguals who learned a second language while growing up, and late bilinguals who learned as adults.

Such changes, Li and colleagues suggested while reviewing a number of related studies, are consistent with anatomical changes that can occur in the brain as a result of learning a second language, no matter the age of the learner, as they reported in a recent issue of Cortex.

Proponents of climate change tend to use more conservative, tentative language to report on the science behind it, while skeptics use more emotional and assertive language when reinterpreting scientific studies, says research from the University of Waterloo.

But while Chang's patients wait for the seizures, with the grids installed and already collecting data, many of the patients volunteer to have him collect more information about the brain's functions, as was the case with this study of speech and language.

Interestingly, while doom and gloom language was present in 10 percent of all articles in this study, only 4 percent contained only this type of language (e.g., «At this point, without human intervention, the species could go extinct within our lifetimes,» Los Angeles Times, July 4, 2012); the remaining articles expressed both doom and gloom and optimistic language.

Results from the study find that throughout the course of development, language indicative of self - centeredness (e.g., using the word «I») decreased, while complexity (words such as «but» and «although») increased.

«While many state - funded preschool programs in the U.S. do not begin until age three or later, this study provides some of the first large - scale evidence that public early education for children as young as age one can be critical for children's language skills,» said Dearing.

«The phenomenon is very intense when we read in our native language but, according to the new study, if we read in a second language learnt after our mother tongue, then this physiological response, while not disappearing completely, is drastically lessened.»

But by studying people while they listened to stories, rather than isolated words or sentences, the team has assembled a useful picture of how the brain responds to the kind of language we hear every day, says Swathi Kiran of Boston University.

A study they published last month in the journal Psychological Science found that young 4 -, 5 - and 6 - year - olds who engaged in more conversation at home had more brain activity while they were listening to a story and processing language.

While there's no proven way to prevent Alzheimer's yet, these studies outline some pretty significant benefits for your brain from using multiple languages.

At 15, while she was studying foreign languages and modern dance, she started attending the Italian school for performing arts, Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia of Rome.

The 50 - 50 model of dual language instruction splits language instruction both by content and in time; for example, science and social studies may be taught in Spanish while language arts and math are taught in English.

For example, the Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) made a splash in February with an innovative study of how the Common Core debate is playing out on Twitter; scholars found, among other things, that proponents tend to make policy points while opponents use «political language» in their tweets.

While studying Hindi - Urdu and Sanskrit at UT, he had the opportunity to participate in an 11 - week intensive language program in western India that transformed his outlook on education and the importance of stepping outside your comfort zone.

While studying Hindi - Urdu and Sanskrit at UT, he had the opportunity to participate in an 11 - week intensive language...

While subject - area knowledge is privileged in the standards — INTASC has developed specific standards for science, mathematics, English language arts, and special education, and will soon release those for the elementary - school level, social studies, and foreign language — the standards also make clear that knowledge of child development, learning theory, and teaching approaches is essential.

Short films allow us to broaden the linguistic and cultural spectrum within each of these areas of study, allowing the students to be more creative and confident in the language they use, while achieving teaching objectives and learning outcomes.

*** Includes 129 original reading passages and comprehension questions *** *** Includes 30 fluency passages *** *** Includes 11 Reading Posters *** - character, setting, realism and fantasy, main idea and details, cause and effect, author's purpose, compare and contrast, sequence, plot, theme, and drawing conclusions *** Includes four level charts for teachers, parents, or students, so that they can keep track of their progress *** *** Includes a roster - words correct per minute for each student / child for fall / winter / spring *** Skills addressed in this resource: # 1 - think and search # 2 - author and me # 3 - analyze text structure # 4 - identify setting # 5 - identify character # 6 - identify plot # 7 - make and confirm predictions # 8 - cause and effect # 9 - compare and contrast # 10 - retell # 11 - classify and categorize # 12 - alliteration # 13 - rhyme and rhythmic patterns # 14 - onomatopoeia # 15 - similes # 16 - repetition and word choice # 17 - sensory language # 18 - study skills # 19 - text features # 20 - genres This is GREAT practice for testing while also providing a lot of fluency practice!

In their sixth - grade social studies and language arts class, while doing a simulation on the Maya, students take breaks for research, close reading of articles (from secondary sources to primary documents written in the 1500s), and analyzing their own artistic replicas of primary documents.

While the Committee of Ten did suggest different programs of study for high schools (for example, programs specializing in classical languages, science and mathematics, or modern languages) and introduced the concept of electives to American high schools, its guiding principle was that all students should receive the same high - quality liberal arts education.

Middle school teacher - candidates will need minor concentrations in language arts, math, science, and social studies, while aspiring high school...

And while we know that young children need a healthy dose of playtime in school, a new study reminds us why academics are important at that age: Over the course of a year, preschoolers who spent more time on language, literacy, and math activities than their peers gained, on average, 2.5 months of additional learning.

The logic in the division of subjects is that social studies are abstract and difficult to grasp in a foreign language, while math and science are easier to teach by demonstration.

And while math and science are increasingly essential in the workplace, so is an - depth knowledge of languages, social studies, and the arts.

The supplemental blended instructional curriculum developed by our partner, Middlebury Interactive Languages, allows students in grades 4 — 10 to learn the fundamentals of academic English while completing projects that relate to English language arts, social studies, mathematics, and science.

The report finds that approximately 62 % of school districts increased the amount of time spent in elementary schools on English language arts and or math, while 44 % of districts cut time on science, social studies, art and music, physical education, lunch or recess.

Pedro Pahuamba helps Cynthia Jimenez with language arts homework from her independent - study packet, while visiting La Nopalera, Mexico.

That study found that while Fast ForWord was effective with language development, it was ineffective with reading achievement.

And while engaged in these projects, students learn language arts, math, science, social studies, as well as essential problem - solving and social skills through involvement with nature and their communities.

While multiple meta - analyses and large - scale research studies have found that models following the bilingual approach can produce better outcomes than ESL models, as measured by general academic content assessments or measures of reading comprehension or skills, other studies indicate that the quality of instructional practices matter as well as the language of instruction.