Sentences with phrase «critical languages like»

We desire to see more young people travel to destinations where fewer Americans have studied, and to learn critical languages like Arabic, Chinese, Hindi and Russian.

Not exact matches

In The Heart of the Matter, a 2013 report sponsored by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a reader is confronted with language like this: «Among other benefits [studying the humanities] strengthens clarity of written and oral expression, critical and analytic reasoning, and the creativity to think outside the box.»

Experiments teaching chimps — like the famous Washoe — to communicate using sign language received enormous publicity but rarely withstood critical analysis.

Particularly interesting was the discovery that the thickness of the gray matter in the brain's temporal and prefrontal regions — the structures that are critical for language and for higher - order cognitive functions like self - control and problem - solving — were the most promising candidate traits for genetic mapping, based on both their strong genetic basis and association with the disease.

While some say this practice of designing teacher preparation curriculum around the PACT bears resemblance to K - 12 teachers «teaching to the test,» many educators at Northridge say the PACT is focused on critical areas of good teaching, like planning lessons with strong student assessments, and modifying lessons for English language learners and students with disabilities, and that it therefore only reinforces what candidates should learn anyway.

Phonological awareness is critical for learning to read in alphabetic languages like English.

Our National Security Language Initiative for Youth and Critical Language Scholarship programs offer U.S. high school and college students fully - funded intensive summer language institutes overseas in a number of critical foreign languages like the ones I mentionedCritical Language Scholarship programs offer U.S. high school and college students fully - funded intensive summer language institutes overseas in a number of critical foreign languages like the ones I mentionedcritical foreign languages like the ones I mentioned before.

Sites, subjects, and methods of observation are critical to each artist's visual language: planted fields, elevations seen from an airplane window, gradations of color in a sky reflected on a watery plane, shapes glanced at through apertures between buildings, or the puzzle of shapes in a tapestry - like world are some of the inspirations for the paintings shown here.

Dumas, a rare visual artist who also writes — «a dual talent, like Van Gogh,» her partner of nearly 30 years, the painter Jan Andriesse, said — likes to participate in the dialogue about her own work, and wanted to revisit as many critical texts as possible, both her own and others» writing, for the exhibition catalog, which is being produced in three languages.

Artists like Joseph Kosuth apply their ongoing critical exploration of language and relationships to the carpet, while others like Polly Apfelbaum emphasize the carpet's common function as something to walk on.

Jones - Taylor tells The Preschool Podcast audience why it's so critical that families and educators get involved in advocacy work, and includes some examples of practical language you can send to policymakers so they hear directly from experts like you.

Red - tape reduction and the breaking down of the artificial walls between the many government departments and agencies with responsibility for mental health and social and emotional wellbeing programs is critical; and the same applies to the complementary programs that strengthen culture like native title, caring for country, Indigenous protected areas, cultural and language and inclusion programs.

These toxic stress - induced changes in brain structure and function mediate, at least in part, the well - described relationship between adversity and altered life - course trajectories (see Fig 1).4, 6 A hyper - responsive or chronically activated stress response contributes to the inflammation and changes in immune function that are seen in those chronic, noncommunicable diseases often associated with childhood adversity, like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), cirrhosis, type II diabetes, depression, and cardiovascular disease.4, 6 Impairments in critical SE, language, and cognitive skills contribute to the fractured social networks often associated with childhood adversity, like school failure, poverty, divorce, homelessness, violence, and limited access to healthcare.4, 19,58 — 60 Finally, behavioral allostasis, or the adoption of potentially maladaptive behaviors to deal or cope with chronic stress, begins to explain the association between childhood adversity and unhealthy lifestyles, like alcohol, tobacco, and substance abuse, promiscuity, gambling, and obesity.4, 6,61 Taken together, these 3 general classes of altered developmental outcomes (unhealthy lifestyles, fractured social networks, and changes in immune function) contribute to the development of noncommunicable diseases and encompass many of the morbidities associated epidemiologically with childhood adversity.4, 6

Reflecting 10 years of dramatic change in early education — especially in critical areas like assessment and cultural diversity — the second edition of this bestseller gives teachers up - to - date research, usable information, and essential tools to meet the needs of second language learners in today's learning environments.

It might surprise you to learn that, much like those who need Quality Time, a consideration of how you use time is actually a critical element for the physical touch love language — but you only need a bit.