Sentences with phrase «how language works»

I'm not a lawyer and I don't have the benefit of a university education, but I've always been interested in how language works: how it is used and how it is misused.

This is about learning how the language works.

Let's say that the cognitive structure of my painting approach is close to linguistics structures - how language works.

Young bilingual children also show more awareness of how language works and have better social interaction skills.

As the strategy helps direct students» attention to particular words in a sentence, it can help students understand how language works.

Research shows that the simultaneous learning of language and content requires teachers» (a) understanding of how language works in content, (b) planning for it across a unit, and (c) supporting students» linguistic engagement in classroom activities (Schleppegrell and O'Hallaron 2011).

A missing period at the end of a sentence might make teachers cringe, but it's a real - life example of how readers and writers develop a shared understanding of what conventions mean and how language works in patterns.

«This panel will also consider existing examples from Australia and overseas, such as the Year 1 phonics check used in England that involves children verbally identifying letters and sounds in both real words and made up words to show a child's understanding of how language works.

A knowledge of a foreign language — especially the language of the country you are teaching in — is a considerable asset, for it gives you an insight into how language works as well as allowing you to recognise the problems the nonnative speaker has in learning the English language.

OK, I'll take a swing at it, but in all honesty the real TL; DR answer to your question is «because it has little to do with politics, and is a reality of how language works and evolves, and a downside of English being a vague language».

Without a defined norm, we can't really have an alternative,»cause that's just how language works.

so they can start figuring out meanings and how language works.

Personally, I find it interesting to understand better how our language works.

Yes, I'm showing that I'm a seasoned veteran and you're a little punk who's too stupid to recognize how language works.

Language is flexible and each culture has different standards of how language works.

Yes, you still have to know how the language works, memorize the vocabulary, understand the grammar, and be able to translate and diagram.

But that is not how language works.

Or Leviticus where I've just explained the Hebrew or maybe the aspect of how NO Hebrew term could mean «as with» since that's not how that language works?

Not exact matches

Here is Gates's summary of this entertaining book: «The brain behind XKCD explains various subjects — from how smartphones work to what the U.S. Constitution says — using only the 1,000 most common words in the English language and blueprint - style diagrams.»

In recent years, a few fascinating studies at Harvard, Princeton and other top universities shed new light on body language and how to use it at work.

Yes, here are 5 postures to work on today to answer the question «How can I improve my body language»:

How Twitter applications work: Twitter allows anyone to create and sell software that incorporates, organizes, and rearranges tweets in real time — for instance, by collecting messages written by professional athletes (an app called Twackle) or translating tweets into the language of the high seas (an app called Post Like a Pirate).

They can sure visualize how this technology will work, but it's very hard for them to speak the language of the customer,» he said.

But over the years, employers have reached differing conclusions about how the Act's language should be interpreted — specifically the line that says employers must treat pregnant women the same as «other persons not so affected [by pregnancy] but similar in their ability or inability to work.»

You're probably wondering «OK, I have supporting language, metaphorical patterns and negative affordances, but how do I know if it's working?»

Alexandru Iliescu, CEO of the language - learning app Mondly, said his startup had not been significantly affected by the changes, adding that he was excited to learn more about Facebook's augmented - reality efforts and how Mondly could work with them.

Anyone can learn how to pack a truck, so we look for 10 things that require zero luck or talent: promptness, work ethic, body language, energy, attitude, passion, coachability, willingness to go the extra mile and ability to show up, prepared.

Since Bitcoin is an open source project, it means that anyone who knows how to write programming languages can suggest changes, upgrades or ideas to improve or radically change how the software works.

And I wrote with using a very simple plain language because a personal pet peeve of mine is that finances intentionally kept kind of opaque and confusing because I think it's meant to keep most people ignorant of how the system actually works.

Read up on the development of the brain for how some of us can handle multiple languages with relative ease (and some can not — genetic mutationution at work).

But the proper starting point for theology is God and how our language about God works.

In a work recently completed, but not yet published, I have explained how the adaptability of animal bodily systems, especially the brain, which Meredith and Stein have remarkably demonstrated in respect of the senses in their The Merging of the Senses and which is seen in infant language - learning in a way discussed by Meltzoff, Butterworth and others, reaches a peak in the case of the human use of language so that it is solely semantic and communicational constraints which determine grammar and nothing universal in grammar is determined by neurology.

(See ibid., p. 200) It is this process which makes religious language essential, and to understand the process we need to understand how religious language works.

Here Kirk's language is still fresh and new, and Person is able to provide a useful analysis of how Kirk's literary work illuminates the character of his thought.

His explicit language and content may not be «safe for the whole family,» but with each song Chance gives listeners the image of a man working his way toward God the best way he knows how.

If you want to impress strangers, its best to understand how the english language works first, then show off everything you learned in philosophy 101.

We are to deal with the key problem of how to talk about God, as this issue is illuminated by our understanding of how religious language works.

I wanted to work chronologically through literature in the Western tradition, dovetailing our literary studies with history, so that my students could see how an event like the Trojan War, for example, has shaped an entire cultural imagination and given it a language for its ideals.

That's not how poetic language works.

For example, one can pursue philological analysis only under guiding presumptions about how grammar works and languages evolve.

We have lost much of our sense of how the language of «eternity,» «immortality» and «resurrection» ought to work.

how does a person, a professional footballer who's daily schedule is quite light compared to a regular working class citizen, not learn the basics of English language in a year's time span?

He sees how hard Tanzanians work to survive, finds it normal to squeeze onto a city bus that is packed beyond its gills, and knows that more than one language is expected of him.

-LSB-...] have no problem with programs that work nutrition education into the school curriculum, such as Recipe for Success's innovative seed - to - plate approach that use math, science and language arts while showing impoverished kids how their food grows and -LSB-...]

But in the toddler years, kids understand more language and also have a good grasp on how the world is supposed to work — the right way to wear a pair of pants, for instance.

-- Discover what eurythmy reveals about human development — Work your way through the development of the child by means of exercises appropriate to each developmental phase — See how the Waldorf curriculum comes to life through movement and gesture — Learn about the interplay between eurythmy and academic experiences — Acquire the language and understanding to talk about eurythmy to Waldorf parents in a valuable way — Work, play, laugh, and have fun!

I am trying to work through how to use language positively to help us all negotiate conversations sensitively and wondered 1) do I volunteer that Elana is adopted or wait til she is old enough to decide who to tell.

So how do you know which love language works for your child, and how do you use that knowledge to better communicate love to them?

But he also recommends that we watch how they show love to others to see what language works for them.

He has limited language so I don't know how well just telling him that he can't nurse anymore would work.