Sentences with phrase «about language teaching»

About Blog A blog mostly about language teaching.

He is a profound, cutting - edge thinker who helps teachers and schools get to the heart of what is important about language teaching and language learning and who pushes all of us to continually focus on the needs of the learner.

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I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.»

René adds that they scoured the international education press, looking for news about government initiatives to boost English - language teaching.

«I have been in entertainment and branding for 25 years now, but this is a whole other language that most people don't know, and to be able to teach this to kids that don't have the Harvard education is a beautiful thing because it's not just about owning your life, it's not about owning property,» Lopez said.

Only half support more teaching about Asia in Canadian schools, and less than one - third feel we should focus more on teaching Asian languages.

Ok Reality, if you want me to teach you Quran, then you will first have to drop this offensive language about my faith.

As Kerry Egan said, we don't have to use the language of theology to teach and talk about God.

Furthermore, by removing language about an «unacceptable pregnancy,» «past Christian teaching» (which seems to be used as a cover for what follows in the sentence), and what may «warrant» abortion, some of the paragraph's more pro-choice references have been removed.

Once we accept that the language of Genesis is symbolic, then there is no difficulty in holding both what it really teaches about creation and what we have learned from modern science.

«You can continue teaching Semitic languages which you enjoy, or you can act on what you know — that we have saved your life over the years, and we can save the lives of others as well if you chose to teach them about us.»

One can buy lectures from the Teaching Company about anatomy, Chaucer, math, and the history of the English language (at a very reasonable price, I might add).

Avelino Gonzalez, using language that I had hoped had gone out of fashion among Catholic seminarians, opines that «nothing has changed in two thousand years,» and attempts to enlighten this Jewish author that «what the Pharisees were teaching about hating your enemy... was scripturally unsound.»

It also taught me about economy of language.

So the principle that God uses language to tell us things is at once established; and the claim that Scripture is a further case in point - a claim, be it said, that is irremoveably embedded at foundation level in Jesus» teaching about his Messiahship and God's righteousness (1)-- presents no new conceptual problem.

All through, the teaching of Jesus about God is distinguished by the directness, warmth and simplicity with which the language of fatherhood is used.

I worry about the possibility that there was a series of teachings which created an atmosphere, for those who endured it, in which this abusive language could be considered as acceptable.

By an opaque concept of revelation, 1 mean that familiar amalgamation of three levels of language in one form of traditional teaching about revelation: first, the level of the confession of faith where the lex credendi is not separated from the lex orandi; second, the level of ecclesial dogma where a historic community interprets for itself and for others the understanding of faith specific to its tradition; and third, the body of doctrines imposed by the magisterium as the rule of orthodoxy.

Luther's attacks on the Pope continued, but besides the public controversy, he also worked to make his teaching known to «common people» and set about translating the New Testament into German, which was a brilliant piece of work and one which had a deep influence on the German language.

Barth's reticence about «Mother of God» language echoes Calvin's reservations, but both theologians embraced without hesitation the teaching of the Council of Ephesus, which acclaimed Mary as Theotokos, the God - bearer, or, as Jaroslav Pelikan renders this term, «The one who gave birth to the One who is God.»

Islam, as people know today, was Hebrew teachings or teachings of son of blessed Mary, was never about religion, but truth absolute Thin Allah, so much so, word religion did not exist in Hebrew language or in even in Qu «ran, there is no such thing as religion, but Thin Allah, consti tution of America, other wise known as Law of West.

Mexico will open their minds to new languages, food, and people, giving you valuable opportunities to teach about different cultures.

We teach sign language to our children and the videos that we watch (Signing Time) inform them about feelings (among an abundance of other things).

Melanie is a certified speech language pathologist, a national speaker on the topic of picky eating, and the author of the award winning parenting book, Happy Mealtimes with Happy Kids: How to Teach Your Child About the Joy of Food!

About the Author: Andrea Ploehn (SAY Plone as in «hone») is an expert on nonverbal communication and teaching babies sign language.

Believe it or not, but this class teaches them valuable lessons about social, emotional, and language development, in addition to helping them work on their motor skills.

Use our parenting tips to always find common language with your child and effectively teach him about better manners and behavior.

Barefoot Books started in 1993 with the beliefs that it's never too early to teach children about other cultures, that kids should be given the opportunity to appreciate high - quality art just like adults, and that children should be able to enjoy the music and meaning of language from an early age.

It teaches them about language, social skills and imaginative thinking.

It's full of excellent language, full of adventure and teaching children all about building friendships.

If you know the answer to the question, that's your chance to shine and teach your child about weather, economics or language.

momstown moms and kids are learning all about bears this month at our community events, so we wanted to teach the babies, toddlers and preschoolers the ASL sign language for «bear»!

Learn more about how playing with dolls teaches kids cognitive, fine motor, self - help, speech - language, and social - emotional skills in this post written in collaboration with a speech therapist and clinical psychologist who specializes in children and play therapy.

Unveil myths and cons about teaching sign language to young children and how to overcome them.

This interactive map not only helps learn geography, but it also teaches your child about the people who live across the world, different languages, explains about each culture and has lots of fun learning games.

Now that you mention it, I actually have no problem with programs that work nutrition education into the school curriculum, such as Recipe for Success's innovative seed - to - plate approach that uses math, science and language arts while showing impoverished kids how their food grows and teaching them about sound nutrition.

We'll be sharing tips for learning the language of social media, how to teach kids to self - regulate their social media use, how teachers can help promote positive online interactions, and also answering your questions about social media in the classroom.

momstown moms and kids are learning all about colour this month at our community events, so we wanted to teach the babies, toddlers and preschoolers the ASL sign language for their colours!

And don't feel silly about talking Motherese or baby talk — babies are particularly attuned to this high - pitched, drawn - out way of communicating that can actually teach your baby about the structure and function of language.

My teaching about pain - coping strategies became more body - centered, I began to include a body - centered hypnosis component to group classes and I was able to use language effectively in my contact with prenatal and postpartum clients.

By using - and teaching others about - positive adoptive language, adoptive families help tear down adoption misconceptions.

This teaches us two things about the current campaign (neither of which is too surprising): i) both candidates try to cater to the electorate by using easy language; and ii) Trump should listen to his speech writers and try to stay on - script.

«I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet — a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language — who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.»

That's because language endangerment is not about numbers but about whether there are plenty of young speakers with parents to teach the language to them.

Studying for 12 months in another country teaches you a host of different lessons — from learning a new language to learning about yourself.

Once you have a sophisticated language, you can teach your children about what's not present; we can discuss the past.

«What is universal — and what is not — about how we group clusters of meanings teaches us a lot about psycholinguistics, the conceptual structures that underlie language use.»

The findings open up new questions about language learning and the teaching of language.

To some extent all the contributors are concerned about the mediating role of language, most notably in Peter Bowen's description of teaching about AIDS at Rutgers University.

In «The Voice of the Dolphins,» which is a tale about how the nuclear arms race ultimately ended in the 1980s, he wrote in the 1960s that there was a joint U.S. - Soviet study center in Vienna and that they enlisted dolphins, who had the biggest cranial capacity of any mammal, and they taught them language and they taught them math and the dolphins worked up all these wonderful solutions that won them Nobel Prizes.