Sentences with phrase «as first languages»

For the study, Hoff and her collaborators David Giguere, a graduate research assistant at FAU and Jamie M. Quinn, a graduate research assistant at Florida State University, used longitudinal data on children who spoke English and Spanish as first languages and who were exposed to both languages from birth.

England is another natural fit for an American business, with less of a communication barrier than in countries without English as a first language.

They were littered with poor grammar, obviously written by someone who doesn't speak English as a first language, stuffed with unnecessary over-use of keywords, and provided no useful or insightful information.

She was born in this country, speaks English as her first language, loves football, holds a British passport and was christened in a church.»

[10] 94.9 % spoke English, 2.0 % Spanish and 1.0 % Italian as their first language.

«As the son of immigrants and one who did speak English as my first language, I am thankful that Borough President Katz has appointed me to Queens Library's Board of Trustees,» Mr. OTTULICH said.

It is the only Asian country that uses English as a first language and where the lifestyle and operating systems are compatible with practices in highly developed countries.

The ten - year - olds in the study came from both a rural school and an urban school, but all had Norwegian as their first language.

«Hispanic» was a designation researchers assigned to people who spoke Spanish as their first language and those who identified themselves as Hispanic.

Most people are eating increasing levels of processed and denatured carbs, fats and animal based proteins than ever before in history in English speaking (as first language) nations.

Having Spanish as a first language has also influenced my work, as I often write poems in Spanish and a lot of my favorite poets write in Spanish, as well.

If your significant other is from another country that does not speak English as a first language, you now have a person who can help tutor you (for free!)

Most of them speak English as their first language.

Wonder Woman is not an American, and does not speak English as her first language.

At the other end of the scale, children with Chinese as their first language perform well, averaging between a B and a C at GCSE in Attainment 8 — despite having also entered secondary school in Year 9.

Some EAL pupils, such as late arrivals with Pashto as a first language, score, on average, between an F and an E at GCSE in Attainment 8 having arrived into the English school system in Year 9.

«The pious protestations to the contrary, Ronald Reagan has stayed his course on education — and his course has been the deliberate assault on assistance programs for the handicapped, the disadvantaged, and those persons who have suffered discrimination for decades — female students and those who don't speak English as a first language,» said Charles T. Manatt, chairman of the Democratic Party organization.

So even though the child may not have learnt English as a first language, they still may be adept at it and on the whole they seem to do better at school.

Cawsey says the success of the program, and the fact the school is recognised for its leadership in this area, is all the more remarkable because Rooty Hill is an L2 community - that is, no - one speaks Chinese as a first language.

Among minorities who do not speak Thai as their first language, the motivation to learn among this group is now very high but our challenge is to find effective ways to reach and teach them.

The study, which comprises responses from individuals studying at Undergraduate, Masters and PHD level, also found that 42 % of students do not speak English as their first language, and 1 in 10 do not speak English at all.

A large - scale study tracking the progress of more than 270 000 students has concluded that teaching reading through a synthetic phonics programme has long - term benefits for children from poorer backgrounds and those who do not speak English as a first language.

Most importantly, English - proficient bilingual students who reported a non-English language as first language attained higher scores in state exams compared to students reported English as their first language and English language learners.

Thought his quiz, the children will learn some interesting facts about France and the French language, from the height of the Eiffel Tower, through how many people live in French or how many countries have French as their first language.

The speech production videos, in American and British English mean the app can also support learners who don't have English as their first language.»

Murphy wrote that «the most vulnerable students are those who live in low - income areas or don't speak English as a first language.»

Although the majority of the students had Swedish as their first language, there were students with other ethnic and linguistic backgrounds in all classes.

In the small city of Chelsea, which borders Boston, almost 90 percent of the students come from low - income families and most did not speak English as their first language.

Schools throughout the country include growing numbers of children who do not speak English as their first language.

All the students speak Yiddish as their first language.

The Global Assessment Certificate ™ (GAC) program is an internationally recognized university preparation program for students who do not have English as their first language.

Latino English learners who have Spanish as their first language make up 80 percent of all English learners in California.

They also celebrate the different ethnic backgrounds of their families, many of who do not have English as their first language.

(An important part of Sturgis» efforts to create a diverse student body is recruiting from low - income and immigrant families in neighboring towns, including from the Brazilian population on Cape Cod who speak Portuguese as their first language.)

She said many families the school is targeting don't have regular access to computers, nor do they speak English as a first language.

The same happens to a lesser extent with labelling as SEN with statement, and as not having English as a first language.

Alice Bradbury and Guy Roberts - Holmes, of University College London Institute of Education, who undertook research with teachers after the original trials, say many factors could have skewed the results, such as whether the child was summer born, spoke English as a first language, or had settled happily into school.

This is in the context of 51 % of its students qualifying for Pupil Premium, 29 % students not having English as their first language and typically students joining the school in KS3 having KS2 scores which are significantly below the national average.

Few of Hobart's more than 1600 students speak English as a first language.

Nearly 20 years after voting to restrict bilingual education in a state with more than 1 million schoolchildren who don't speak English as their first language, California voters appear poised to reverse that ban.

Multi-lingual: The DESSA and DESSA - mini are provided in both English and Spanish, serving all raters — including families — who may not speak English as a first language.

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.

According to statistics, almost each other academic and custom writing company that you can find nowadays hires the authors who do not speak English as their first language.

Almost every other writing company you find these days uses writers who don't speak English as a first language.

They all have English as their first language, and they are all up to date with the most recent curriculums.

Too many words and obviously the writer does not have English as a first language.

We have our own writers that work in our offices, they all have English as their first language, and they all have a slew of qualifications.

While many authors may possess the required talent and determination to see their work published, there are many which do not necessarily have the technical skills - i.e. the grammatical ability and / or the knowledge of typesetting / formatting; authors which may be novice to the publishing industry, may not have English as their first language, or may be lacking in confidence and wish to enlist the assistance of editing and publishing professionals.

There are authors out there who are dyslexic or do not speak English as their first language.

They need to know, understand and communicate in English as their first language, and need to draw from their rich repertoire of skill sets, qualifications and experiences for the benefit of our student client community drawn from different parts of the world.