Sentences with phrase «foreign language study at»

That directive was designed to increase student and teacher exchanges, and to strengthen foreign language study at every level.

After graduating from high school, he pursued further musical activities and foreign language studies at the Kansai Gaidai University.

Not exact matches

Then there are the foreign students — all those young Chinese and Koreans studying at Central St Martin's University of the Arts in King's Cross, the European students on Erasmus exchange programmes around the country (doubly bad no doubt in Mr Farage's eyes since it's an EU scheme, that also sends Britons to the Continent, where they might too pick up the habit of speaking these foreign languages), the students from the Indian sub-continent studying engineering and computer science, students from around the globe trying to acquire or improve their grasp of the English language that can be their passport to a good job wherever in the globe they come from.

I remember, back as a student starting out with two majors, biology and English language and literature, at the University of Szeged in Hungary in 1993, how keen I became to study anthropology for my master's in biology in a foreign country.

Many Russian women posting their ads on the dating sites have University degrees, thus have certainly studied English or / and another foreign language at university (English is also obligatory subject in a secondary school), may use it at work or attend classes.

At 15, while she was studying foreign languages and modern dance, she started attending the Italian school for performing arts, Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia of Rome.

Then we watched selective campuses do away with some of their own long - standing prerequisites, such as the expectation that entering students would have studied and become reasonably proficient in at least one foreign language.

«No Child Left Behind established an overemphasis on reading and math and took away time from the study of languages,» says Shuhan Wang, deputy director of the National Foreign Languages Center at the University of Maryland.

Reimers says he looked at a number of case studies and evaluations, as well as conducted interviews of business leaders, military officials, and the intelligence community in order to gauge how much change has occurred in foreign area expertise and foreign language over the past 50 years.

Gibbs said that when discussing the GCSE policy with young people who attended top comprehensive schools, «they take it for granted that pupils study maths, English and science at GCSE, alongside a foreign language and either history or geography».

Particularly in urban schools, the pressure from testing has narrowed the curriculum to focus on those subjects on which graduation and accreditation rest — at the expense of art, music, theater, physical education, foreign language, and even science and social studies.

College - bound students were also advised to study a foreign language for at least two years.

When I discuss our GCSE policy with young people who attended top comprehensive schools (and independent and grammar schools), they take it for granted that pupils study maths, English and science at GCSE, alongside a foreign language and either history or geography.

After the introduction of the English Baccalaureate (EBacc), which requires every current year 7 to study English, maths, science, history or geography and a modern foreign language until they are 16, there was an initial increase in the proportion of pupils taking a language at GCSE, but this number has now stagnated.

A recent study conducted by the Council for Basic Education confirms what many educators have feared: The curriculum is narrowing as schools zero in on reading, writing, and math at the expense of the arts, foreign languages, and elementary - level social studies.

The task force, chaired by Joel Klein, former head of New York City public schools, and Condoleezza Rice, former U.S. secretary of state, cites mediocre U.S. showings on international assessments; high dropout rates, particularly among black and Hispanic students; poor civics performance; limited study of foreign languages; and lack of college preparedness as evidence that the nation's security is at risk.

These courses provide rural students an opportunity to study a foreign language at sites that would not otherwise be able to offer foreign language.

Generally, able students would study two sciences and at least one foreign language in S3 and S4, unless there was a good reason not to.

Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan posed a central question in his speech at the National Council for Social Studies Annual Conference: «How can we promote both a well - rounded education with rich offerings across all subjects — civics, geography, economics and history, the arts, foreign languages, physical education, the sciences, et cetera — and simultaneously create a system of real and meaningful accountability that doesn't lead to narrowing of the curriculum?»

We recognise that pupils have very different experiences of studying modern foreign languages at primary school and so we assume very little prior knowledge of French or Spanish on joining the school in Year 7.

At UV, students can become the teacher they want to be, with study areas available in foreign language, math, reading, ESL, special education, gifted education and more.

Military service members study foreign languages at highly accelerated paces in courses ranging from 24 to 64 weeks in length.

I've studied, speak foreign languages, travelled, worked in diplomacy, taught at a university, worked abroad, competed at the national and international level as an athlete, have a great family and friends, etc., Thank you for your deep and constructive comments.

But «don't just call on anyone who speaks the language,» says Milena Savova, director of the Department of Foreign Languages, Translation, and Interpreting at New York University's School of Professional Studies.

A college degree in any field should be standard, ideally with at least a minor in foreign language studies.