Sentences with phrase «dominant language»

Although others saw the medium as once removed from reality, she regarded it as «something real,» the «dominant language of contemporary culture.»
Code § 4.26, declares that Pennsylvania's local education agencies (LEA) must provide a program for each student whose dominant language is not English for the purpose of facilitating the student's achievement of English proficiency and the academic standards.
The distilled group presentation of individual explorations delves into the mysticisms of science and women's manipulations of technology to undermine its own dominant language.
The consensus is that future dominant languages will be English, Spanish, Mandarin, and Arabic.
Cultural information — Some homebuyers want to know dominant language, ethnicity and religions in an area that they are considering buying in.
Our results suggest that parent - teacher relationships are less aligned when parents are Latinos whose dominant language is Spanish.
In those times, Greek (like today's English), was still the dominant language of commerce in that region and most people used it every day 3.
It was, in fact, the language of Wilson, and the dominant language of American leadership from the founding until fairly recently.
But living in a world where the connection of poetry and theology has been ruptured, most of their attempts to vitalize their sermons have been limited to employing the culture's dominant language in the pulpit.
If you're using the OPOL method, one language will always be dominant, typically your community's dominant language.
English is by far the dominant language of business according to Ipsos MORI, who polled employees in 26 countries.
Luckily, your lab is in the United States, so in time English will likely become the dominant language; otherwise the lab will become isolated, scientifically and socially.
«If you learn a second language later in life, you usually have a dominant language and then you try to use that sounds system for the other language, which is why you end up having an accent,» he said.
These new findings challenge the idea that bilinguals always have one dominant language.
It's well known that economic growth or the desire to achieve it can drive language loss, he notes — dominant languages such as Mandarin Chinese and English are often required for upward mobility in education and business, and economic assistance often encourages recipients to speak dominant languages.
Many scammers looking for victims on dating sites are from countries where English is not the dominant language.
Or a child can become bilingual when he or she speaks the community's dominant language at home but attends an immersion program at school.
A child can be bilingual when the language spoken at home differs from a community's dominant language, which the child is exposed to in schools.
The research refers to children raised with a language at home that differs from the dominant language outside the home, such as in school.
In multi-ethnic societies, including Turkey, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Guatemala, the paper shows that imposing a dominant language through a school system — while sometimes a choice of necessity — has frequently been a source of grievance linked to wider issues of social and cultural inequality.
English may be the world's dominant language but as we face political separation, it's likely we will also feel this socially.
The knowledge to be learned remains the same regardless of the dominant language spoken in a culture.
«Standard American English being the dominant language of society often causes children to feel that their home languages are inferior to the standard spoken at school,» the group explained in its application.
Then there are examples such as Brazil, where Portuguese had a presence for 300 years but didn't become the dominant language until a gold rush in the 1790s brought swarms of new speakers.
and both Portuguese and Cantonese are the dominant languages.
«I turned to photography because I thought it was the dominant language of our culture,» says Charlesworth, who is represented in the show by photographs from her first two series of newspaper appropriation works, «Modern History» (1978) and «Stills» (1977).
I will also go out on a limb and say that, after several years where abstraction has been the dominant language of painting, representational work will start to mount a comeback.
JC English is international in that it is the dominant language of the world.
The rise and fall of French as the dominant language of international law (and the consequences of this on legal thought and practice)
The rise of English as the dominant language of international law (and its consequences on legal thought and practice)
Experts at the University of Texas El Paso speculate that part of the problem is communication, as English is not necessarily the dominant language in all parts of this large border city.
That should hopefully result in more stable code, faster fixes, and a lower threshold for new developers as Kotlin surely moves towards becoming the dominant language for Android in the years to come.
Pierre Noizat writes: «France and more generally, southern European countries seem to lag behind Northern European countries and behind countries where English is a dominant language.
English has become the dominant language for international trade so export countries, particularly in Asia and Latin America, are eager to have their citizens learn the language.
The following sections discuss 1) common strategies used to determine a child's primary or dominant language, 2) approaches for choosing the best language in which to assess dual language children, and 3) advantages and disadvantages of assessing bilingual children in different languages or combinations of languages.
Children attend educational institutions with locals, where they are subjected to the dominant language and culture.
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