Sentences with phrase «dominant language spoken»

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P: We're losing languages because there are a few languages that are associated with cultures that are economically and politically dominant, so everybody starts speaking them.

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.

One hemisphere has a slightly more developed, or dominant, area in which written and spoken language is organized.

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.

Instead of learning American Sign Language (ASL), many children who are deaf or hard of hearing are encouraged primarily to use the language of the dominant culture by learning to read lips and speak or to «fix» their inability to hear by having a cochlear implant surgically installed, which provides a sense of sound.

As teachers try to tailor assessments to gauge the abilities of individual students, they often find it particularly difficult to measure the skills of children who do not speak a school's dominant language.

Is migratory, speaks a native language other than English, and comes from an environment where language other than English is dominant; or

Limitations in their ability to speak and / or understand the language of the dominant culture is not related to their ability to communicate effectively in their native or primary language.