Sentences with phrase «as world languages»

Several states have adopted «course access» initiatives that provide students with opportunities to take many kinds of approved courses for credit — another way to enable students to learn both inside and outside traditional school hours and locations.31 Such policies also might be especially important for smaller high schools, where economies of scale can make it difficult to afford certified on - site teachers for a wide range of specialized courses, such as world languages, physics, and calculus.32

Students will participate in electives for visual and musical arts as well as world languages such as Spanish.

Kentucky, for instance, considers the quality of schools» programs in nontested subjects, such as world languages, arts, and humanities.

Lost (and Gained) in Translation 05 July 2013 English's status as the world language of science presents challenges and opportunities to native speakers and English learners.

English's status as the world language of science presents challenges and opportunities to native speakers and English learners.

As world language instructors, we can become so laser - focused on teaching the foundations of the language that we unintentionally neglect to infuse culturally rich, authentic materials into our lessons.

After two years considering the best ways for teaching English learners, an advisory panel has recommended the state establish a new single subject credential in the area of teaching English as a world language» and an advanced EL authorization to provide instructional and professional development resources to elementary and secondary teachers.»

Not exact matches

We also threw The Daily Mail into our comparison as it's the biggest English - language newspaper site in the world.

As the second blog post puts it — in the opaque and passive - aggressive language favored by the world's largest social network --» We anticipate that this update may cause reach and referral traffic to decline for some Pages.»

This rising tide of connectedness in the world suddenly means that if you're an English - language publisher, there are hundreds of millions of people around the world where people speak English as a second language.

Since my last Sino - Saturday edition, much has happened on the trade front: Donald Trump announced plans to impose tariffs of as much as $ 60 billion on imports from China; China fired back with tariffs of $ 3 billion against imports from the US, a promise to challenge US penalties at the World Trade Organization and some tough language threatening more painful countermeasures to come; global markets took a nosedive.

English as a language and the Roman alphabet are among of the most common forms of communication in the world.

The man who remains the only player ever to catch a perfect game in a World Series leaves a legacy to the English language almost as big as the one he leaves to the game.

But I was just amazed by how everyone, young and old wanted to be involved... and was so deeply enriched and touched by the experience and the laughter and the love I experienced from the people I met and how women would in particular open their hearts to me and tell me the stories of where they've come from, particularly because I have the language and was coming there as a woman and just how touched they were that I was there as a woman from England who's learned the language and who's an artist and running this project and come all the way to see them so they didn't feel forgotten I think that was pretty much what they felt... that their stories were being heard so they don't feel forgotten knowing the tents would be around the world.

History has enabled me to understand the path of lots of different places as I focused on world history, and Arabic is such a complex and fascinating language and also a really unusual one and I think that's what drew me to it.

While it's true that people often use cryptic language to show off, just as often it's simply a case of forgetting that there are those in the world who don't live and breathe the markets.

Within those areas, you'll see a focus on such real - world applications as machine learning, network security, visual computing, natural language processing, among others.»

Then Bollywood, the Bombay (now known as Mumbai) based Hindi language film industry, which is the largest film production centre in the world.

The official archives of The Coca - Cola Company that includes exhibits such as the original stock certificates of forbearer Pemberton Chemical Company, an opportunity to sample 100 drinks from the beverage giant's portfolio of brands from around the world, a retail store, an advertising archive, a miniature bottling plant that allows you to see the process of turning the syrup into the finished product, an advertising theater with commercials from the past century in multiple languages around the world, and more.

«America's strengths include [the fact it is a] society that attracts talent from around the world and assimilates them comfortably as Americans; and a language that is the equivalent of an open system that is clearly the lingua franca of the leaders in science, technology, invention, business, education, diplomacy and those who rise to the top of their own societies around the world.»

To see language as «the element in which we live,» or to say that our understanding of the world is «language - bound»» or, in his most famous formula, that «Being that can be understood is language»» does not mean simply that language is a medium in which we can connect with anything.

As a participant in that 1998 Ramsey Colloquium, a longtime supporter of the cautious use of rights language, and a frequent critic of its misuses, I was moved by Reno's arguments to ponder whether the noble post — World War II universal human - rights idea has finally been so manipulated and politicized as to justify its abandonment by men and women of good wilAs a participant in that 1998 Ramsey Colloquium, a longtime supporter of the cautious use of rights language, and a frequent critic of its misuses, I was moved by Reno's arguments to ponder whether the noble post — World War II universal human - rights idea has finally been so manipulated and politicized as to justify its abandonment by men and women of good wilas to justify its abandonment by men and women of good will.

A convinced Platonist, at least with regard to the existence of mathematical laws, Davies rejects the cultural view of mathematics merely as a language created by man to describe the natural world; and like his colleague Roger Penrose (one of the foremost theoreticians on black holes) he flatly asserts that mathematical laws have an existence of their own:

I am a Christian because Christianity gives me the language to lament and to doubt, «to confess the ugly realities» as Austin said — from the violence I observe in the world and in my heart to «to the sin of white America» which Emily Scott described as the attempt «to still the voice of a whole people and keep them from singing.»

It extended as far north as the Slavic world and created its own Greco - Roman world that distinguished itself from the Latin Europe of the West by introducing variants in the liturgy and in the ecclesiastical constitution, adopting a different script, and renouncing the use of Latin as the common language.

His point was that human language could convey knowledge of God, which meant that any form of revelation communicated the truth as it existed objectively first in God's mind and then in the structures of the world.

Now, however, as the scriptures of the world have been translated into English and many other western languages, we can draw upon the insights of the scriptures of the world for our theological reflection.

Adopting the language of Greek ontology, the Church came to know the world as «being» and God as transcendent «Being.»

Nevertheless, during the twentieth century, practitioners of economics as an academic discipline, especially in the English - language world, have moved away from political economy.

Those «oral residues,» as Ong calls them, are to be seen in the techniques of syntax and image which abound in Elizabethan prose.3 They are naturally in the King James Version of the Bible — until this generation the language of worship throughout the English - speaking world.

As she does so, the language of the book begins to seep into and inform the way in which she considers the world.

Viewing the parish as house within the world house emphasizes its participation in the frame of all language.

The global reach, extreme influence, and extreme importance of Christianity is largely due to the fact that the European races, largely Caucasoid, became the world's most dominant races as evidenced by their conquest and colonization of many parts of the world's major regions and because their religion invariably happened to be some form of Christianity, consequently, they gave the greater part of the world not only their languages, their customs, and their ideas, but also their religion including their version of what God looks like.

In Whitehead's paradoxical language, «It is as true to say that God creates the world as that the world creates God.

To imagine him, with divine Omniscience, deliberately translating his message into the language of a world - view he knew to be false would make him a figure so artificial and unreal as to be neither credible nor attractive.

One does not grow conceptually in the ways needed to discern and respond to God simply by acquiring abilities and capacities related to «grace,» «wrath,» and «glory,» and the like, as they are generally used in ordinary language in one's society or as they may be generally used in the various world religions.

His goal is to bring the entire world under one roof i.e., world beyond boundaries and unite the people of the world as one beyond any race, color, language, nationality and religion.

You know all of that, but you're still able to hear these as true stories, as metaphorical narratives using ancient archetypal language to make, among other affirmations, that Jesus is the light coming into the darkness, to make the affirmation that the Herods of this world constantly seek to destroy that which is born of God.

But the reaction was intensified as another basic presupposition of membership was contradicted: the experience of church, rather than providing a way out of this world, was increasingly being set in the context and language of a very disturbing and complex «now.»

These changes signaled not so much a rejection of tradition as an attempt to renew the tradition by placing it in the contemporary language of the world.

The majority of the world population received the New Testament in their own language through its translations from the Greek language as well as translations of translations.

Since we live in the kind of world we do, a good addition to the basic image would be one person seated directly beside the minister, obviously acting as a translator — since language too is a variant.

Since then the English language serves as a conveyor belt upon which ideas manufactured in Tübingen, Basel and Heidelberg — or in Lyon, São Paulo and Uppsala — are carried to the rest of the world, inspection of the machinery for possible faulty operation now and again might help to avert a breakdown along the way.

They agree with Buddhists as to the power of language to shape our worlds, and they have demonstrated that in fact the male pronoun elicits male images in both men and women.

Fortunately, I have a creationist friend, who has informed me that this can't be right, as the World is only one tenth as old (about 6,000) years and that all Australian Aboriginal languages were made by God in the Tower of Babel.

The Qur» anic language of the form - spirit is used with reference to the cosmic becoming of al - khalq in Ibn» Arabi.38 The point is that al - khalq as pure thought of the worlds to be [SP] receives its being as the actualized worlds in the same way as Jesus came into being.

Second: to say that this particular book is true is to say that we can trust it, trust it as a guide to faith and life which provides not only specific claims about God's faithfulness and how we ought to live our lives in response to it, but also a way of understanding the whole world and a language in which to speak about that world.

The now deceased king would be horrified to learn how Muslims around the world point to their reading of the Koran in their own language as a key reason for leaving Islam.

I teach English as a second language to International students from all over the world... Japanese, Saudi, Kazakh, Mongolian, Korean, Chinese, Brazilian, Iranian, etc..

The language of the Christian community needs to be formed by its Scripture, even as the community ponders issues raised up by a postbiblical world.