Sentences with phrase «first language while»

She values bilingualism and nurtures her students» first language while moving them toward proficiency in English.

Not exact matches

Even by law: the second one is simply rude language (which you deliberately selected, to contrast with equally biased selection of carefully polite phrase for your side — as if we never hear a rude word from you guys); while the first one is actually a blackmail, despite the said politeness of the form.

* In the first place, while the language of religion is metaphorical, this blanket statement needs to be broken down so that we see that certain distinctive forms of speech are appropriate to certain distinctive kinds of biblical reference.

While there is a substantial body of writing — including a fine website — on the working of the Progetto, we believe that this book offers the first English language commentary on its potential for other cultures.

While the other candidates have all made supportive noises in favor of something that includes legalization before enforcement and expanded low - skill immigration, Huckabee can run on something that combines enforcement - first to be followed by a limited amnesty and shifting future immigration flows in the direction of skills and language proficiency.

While Thornton is not the first to use language of this sort, 2 his paper nevertheless helps explain why Christians today should be wary of it: namely, because the terminology arises out of a Spiritualist, not Christian, framework.

In other words, while the second part of this saying, the «denying», fits smoothly into the liturgical language of the early Church, the first part, the «acknowledging», does not.

While babies may not speak their first word for a year, they are born ready to communicate with a rich vocabulary of body movements, cries and visual responses: all part of the complex language of infant behavior.

However, while he didn't have a problem with English, language is typically the first barrier for most asylum seekers and refugees when they arrive in the UK or want to take up further education.

Prior to this morning, the first, Harris v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission, appeared unlikely to prove explosive, while the second, Evenwel v. Abbott, held the potential for fireworks — but only if the justices were willing to accept an especially audacious argument which seems to cut against the explicit language of the Constitution.

I am saying, to borrow the language of the economist, that for the first time in a long while, our macroeconomic fundamentals are solid and all the critical indices are pointing in the right direction,» the President Stated.

While as many as 680 were arrested in the first week of February throughout Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, San Antonio, and New York City areas by raids conducted by ICE agents, according to Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, the legislation seeks to codify language to prevent Westchester County from aiding the federal government in investigations made on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, and national origin.

While gesture may be the first step in language evolution, the psychologists also found evidence that the evolutionary pathway from gesture to human language included the «co-evolution of gestural and vocal communication.»

In previous work with full - term infants, a Northwestern team had shown that by three months, infants successfully form object categories while listening to language and that this language - cognition link persists throughout the first year of life.

«While many state - funded preschool programs in the U.S. do not begin until age three or later, this study provides some of the first large - scale evidence that public early education for children as young as age one can be critical for children's language skills,» said Dearing.

For example, a child who learns a language while very young and then stops speaking the language will find it far easier to relearn years later than will an adult attempting to master it for the first time.

Speakers of Eskimo - Aleut languages, found in the Aleutian Islands and Greenland, inherit almost half their genes from the second wave, while the Na - Dene - speaking Chipewyan in central Canada inherit around a tenth of their genes from a third wave — although all groups can claim to have «first American» DNA (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature11258).

«First aid in the brain: When language suddenly fails: Why certain linguistic abilities can be regained after a stroke while others are lost forever.»

I am type 2 diabetic and wanted to know if when you say 150gr of carbs for 3 days prior to taking the test you mean a weight of 150 grams or talk about macronutrients, because I ve been eating vlc for a while now and usually every 100 grams of let's say pasta there is only around 70 grams of carbs, and 100 grams of pasta is A LOT of pasta (pasta is just an example, sorry english is not my first language -LRB-:) so I would need to double that amount and more for a few days..?

Where there is a pattern of closed or incongruent body language while flirting with you, keep your romantic guard up and get to know them better first.

While many will be overjoyed to see the violence even more brutal, the language even less suitable for your dear old granny, and the nods and winks even more grin - inducing, most importantly Deadpool 2 has even more heart and a stronger narrative than the fantastic first feature.

This is the first English language film from director Alexandros Avranas (MISS VIOLENCE, 2013) and his cast is led by Jim Carrey as police inspector Tadek, a disgraced cop who takes care of his elderly mother while also obsessing over the now coldcase that ruined his career.

X-Men: Apocalypse Rated PG - 13 for sequences of violence, action and destruction, brief strong language and some suggestive images Rotten Tomatoes Score: 48 % While the X-Men First Class trilogy had been moving along nicely, director Bryan Singer made a humongous error with this final chapter, posing Oscar Isaac as the all - powerful Apocalypse, a seemingly immortal villain capable of doing pretty much anything.

While a violent storm rages above ground, it seems the real horrors lie on the inside... The Autopsy of Jane Doe is the first English - language film from Norwegian filmmaker André Øvredal, of Trollhunter previously.

While the style does outweigh the story, Stoker is a welcoming first English - language film from Park that I hope is not his last.

So, while his new film, his first English - language film since «Alien: Resurrection,» and his first 3D picture, would be a big get, it's probably not in the cards, especially as the film isn't expected to be delivered until the end of the summer, making TIFF or NYFF more likely possibilities.

Having taken the arthouse world by storm with his first two pictures - Reprise and Oslo, 31 August - Norwegian helmer Joachim Trier makes the move into English language fare with his third effort while very much maintaining his signature...

But while successes like «The Hangover» (the first one only) and «Bridesmaids» are pinnacle examples of using the adults - only rating to raunchy perfection, there are handfuls more that simply think a wacky premise and salty language are the only ingredients you need for comedy.

The traditional royalty slot of the 7 pm premiere on the first Saturday is reserved this time for French director Eva Husson's sophomore feature GIRLS OF THE SUN, while the first English - language competition film doesn't screen until the second half of the festival.

Arriving the same year American Spike Lee would remake his seminal Oldboy, Park Chan Wook's highly anticipated first English - language feature proved a kind of poetic statement of call - and - response to the tendency for North American cinema to re-make excellent films not just more linguistically palatable, but better while they're at it.

A24's Yiddish - language father - son drama Menashe was strong out of the gate, taking in $ 61,409 from three runs, while Annapurna's first roll - out, Detroit from Academy Award - winner Kathryn Bigelow bowed at over $ 365K in 20 theaters.

Instead, the music composed by Tyler Bates has become the first score to earn the famous Parental Advisory warning parents that their children might hear some naughty language while listening to the album in question.

While not as ground - breaking as the first film, both in the language (toned down) and the characters (inevitable, since we already know these two people so well), it is a step forward in filmmaking for Pang.

While she may not be the best screen paramour for Damon, Potente proves to be the real thing acting-wise in her first big - league English language role.

While the school district contended that the language of IDEA demanded attendance at a public school first, the Second Circuit had already ruled in a prior case that this was an incorrect reading of the law, and could unreasonably require parents either to place children in an inadequate program or shoulder the financial burden of a private education, a result it called «absurd.»

The «threshold» hypothesis states that there is a threshold level of linguistic competence in the native language that all children must attain in order to avoid cognitive disadvantages, while the «developmental interdependence» hypothesis holds that the development of skills in a second language is facilitated by skills already developed in learning the first language.

Although he only completed his freshman year at the University of California Berkeley before declaring for the draft, Brown stood out among draft prospects because of his intellectual pursuits, which included playing chess, learning foreign languages, and taking a graduate - level course while in his first year.

While teaching a language that is used in industry has some merit, we strongly discourage the teaching of Java (or for that matter C++, C#, or Swift) in school, because the languages are too large and difficult to master as first programming languages.

In his book, Bolick describes how he helped orchestrate the mainstream media's first use of civil rights language in defense of school choice while discrediting a voucher opponent as «blocking the schoolhouse door to minority children.»

While some students had excellent and consistent literacy instruction in their native country, others — for various reasons, including poverty and war — enter bilingual / ESL classrooms in the United States with limited or no literacy skills in the first language.

Primary pupils with first languages including Pashto, Turkish and Slovak perform below the national average, even if they enter the English school system as infants, while groups including Tamil, Chinese and Hindi pupils perform above the national average, even if they arrived as late as year 5.

While one in five Hartford students qualify as England Language Learners, less than 5 percent of the students at Achievement First — Hartford face language barriers and the percent of special education students at Achievement First — Hartford is half of what the Hartford public schools have.

While test scores remained painfully low, they rose slightly during the first year of the grant, so that by spring, 32 percent of children in Grades 3 to 8 passed state tests in language arts, up from 24 percent the year before, state data show.

While no specific details were provided with the first car, Kia says the truck - like concept will feature «bold» new design language, along with as - of - yet unexplained «health and wellness technology.»

Jaguar's Ian Callum and Land Rover's Gerry McGovern had different challenges in front of them — Callum's task was Jaguar's first SUV, while McGovern had to find a way to split the difference between the Evoque and Range Rover Sport — and different design languages to work with.

And while the Infiniti M was the first one to speak that design language fluently, there are rumors stating that the next generation G is going to be the next one to feature the Essence language.

While Ciudad de Libros titles will reach the Spanish language market with both translations and native - first titles, this attention to foreign language markets from a well - known publisher is a great step towards providing ebooks to international readers.

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.

That first pregnancy is a long sea journey to a country where you don't know the language, where land is in sight for such a long time that after a while it's just the horizon - and then one day birds wheel over that dark shape and it's suddenly close, and all you can do is hope like hell that you've had the right shots.

Her 1993 Anime: A Beginner's Guide to Japanese Animation was one of the first English - language books on the subject, while the study of Hayao Miyazaki's work that she authored in 1999 is considered the definitive work on the Oscar - winning director.