Sentences with phrase «greater language proficiency»

Not exact matches

Some still cling to one or two of these but many demand no great proficiency in any language except English and sometimes even that is lacking.

According to him, Nigeria, being a former colony of Great Britain and an English - speaking country was expected to display high level of proficiency in English language in professional, public and other contexts.

Rodríguez explained that the bill would expand language access to over 1.8 million New Yorkers that the city classifies as Limited in English Proficiency and allow greater connection with city government.

The growing number of children who bring to the classroom an array of social problems — from the stresses of poor or broken homes to a lack of adequate motivation or language proficiency — represent the greatest obstacle they face, the principals reported in an informal poll taken here last week.

Such trends may be attributed to the emergence of the global market, where there is a great demand for IT skills and where proficiency in foreign languages is certainly obligatory.

The impact of the project was far - reaching, giving pupils greater proficiency in the language as well as an appreciation of the nuances of different forms of communication — a valuable commodity for any career path.

Great language teachers comprehend proficiency levels and teach their students about them.

Establishes a system of meaningfully differentiating all public schools on an annual basis that is based on all indicators in the State's accountability system and that, with respect to achievement, growth or the other academic indicator for elementary and middle schools, graduation rate, and progress in achieving English language proficiency, affords: Substantial weight to each such indicator; and, in the aggregate, much greater weight than is afforded to the indicator or indicators of school quality or student success.

Chinese - speaking ELLs reached English - language proficiency in greater numbers and more rapidly than Spanish - speaking ELLs across all four language programs.

With this change, how well English learners do on language proficiency assessments has greater consequences than ever before.

This system would provide substantial weight to each accountability indicator and, in the aggregate, a much greater weight than is afforded to the indicator or indicators of school quality or student success (e.g. achievement, growth, graduation rate, or progress in achieving English language proficiency).

«Teachers realize that while their own impact on children is great, it is not as great as the influence of many other factors, including but not limited to poverty, language proficiency, home life, learning disabilities, level of parental involvement and education, and access to proper facilities and technologies,» said West Hartford teacher Ted Goerner.

The tribunal held that the BCVMA discriminated against Indo - Canadian applicants and registrants through, for example, an English - language proficiency requirement greater than what other regulatory bodies imposed, and its predominantly selecting facilities run by Indo - Canadians for unscheduled inspections, based on rumours and anecdotal complaints.