Sentences with phrase «immersed in the language»

Patrick was immersed in the language and thought of Scripture, and Moore provides alongside the text the biblical references, as well as unobtrusive footnotes explaining historical obscurities.
The Church as a body has centuries of experience of reading the Word, of immersing itself in the language of God.
Instead, Malkin ships his students to the developing world, where they may travel 5 hours down a dusty dirt road, immersed in a language they don't recognize, to find a hospital and troubleshoot a piece of medical equipment.
So Tremblay went down to Boston in a student - exchange program and immersed herself in the language.
From São Paulo to Rio, this country and welcomed me with open arms and I have fully immersed myself in the language and the culture here.
Throughout the state, students from elementary all the way up through high school are attending schools that immerse them in languages unfamiliar.
Conversational language — what students need to know to communicate with others — develops rather quickly when students are immersed in a language.
It immerses you in the language and works with you at your own pace.
This is a great way to be immersed in the language and culture of the country.
To learn Spanish in Costa Rica it is essential that you immerse yourself in the language.
We set out to work with local craftsman by our side immersing ourselves in the language and culture.
I am immersed in the language of making, thoroughly engaged with tactile, phenomenological experience while creating work that merges the somatic and mental imaginations.
Upon graduation, he took a job as a designer of billboards and posters, immersing himself in the language of advertising, popular culture, and machine - made images.
They show them, too, at their most deeply immersed in language, and it is not a language intrinsic to art.
(One of the essays in my book - yet - to - be, 13 Ways of Looking at the Law, says that law is a language game — a skilled activity engaged in by more than one person according to a set of protocols etc. etc. — best played by those who have been immersed in the language and who are sensitive to as many contexts for its use as possible.
Immersed in language study in college, I also lived with people from over 20 countries including people from Africa, South America and Asia.

Not exact matches

Hamann's humor consists so much in ludicrous involutions of thought and language, and in the cumulative effect of one absurdity heaped atop another, and in the almost sweetly earnest obliviousness of a voice like that of a holy fool that one must almost entirely immerse oneself in his imaginative world in order to enjoy the fruits of his comic genius.
We have to get down to hard work — to reading the Bible and immersing ourselves in its world and its language.
Like Habermas, he has immersed himself in the growing literature on language, discourse, and communication, coming increasingly to conceive of society itself as a vast system of communicative action, and this perspective has given him a number of novel ideas about the nature of religion.
She once said, «Punk rock is just another word for freedom,» but her best work, including «Mercy Is,» her lullaby for director Darren Aronofsky's Noah, is immersed in the poetic tradition of Blake and Rimbaud as well as the language of the Bible.
French was spoken at home, so it wasn't until I went to school that I was really immersed in the English language.
On exchange they live with that family and are able to immerse themselves in daily life in another language and culture while continuing their education at their host's local Waldorf School.
It's like learning a new language: you're more likely to succeed if you immerse yourself in an environment where the language is spoken.
The Summer Program immerses youngsters in a total language environment specifically tailored to meet his or her needs.
Even if you've visited many times and can speak the language fluently, there are so many things you can learn from totally immersing yourself in a different culture and surroundings than the one you grew up in.
When you immerse yourself in different languages, cultures, foods, and ways of life, it really opens up your mind and forces you to examine the society and rules that you always accepted as «normal.»
Everyone that works here is immersed in the millennial mindset and speaks the language.
Call this line to be immersed in the romance language of Spanish.
Every morning, students immerse themselves in a program that uses the language and techniques of drama, dance, music, and visual and media arts to explore literacy and numeracy.
By immersing students in arts education, you draw them into an incredibly complex and multifaceted endeavor that combines many subject matters (like mathematics, history, language, and science) while being uniquely tied to culture.
Spanish - language students fly to the historic city of Antigua Guatemala to polish their speaking skills and immerse themselves in Guatemalan culture.
Our children are immersed half of the day in either Spanish or Japanese, so they're taught content — math, science, culture, and literacy — in that international language.
Commenting on more academic skills, Fox and Geddes say basic science concepts can be explored through play - based inquiry and the foundations for more formal literacy and language learning can be laid by adults immersing youngsters in meaningful conversations and taking the time to listen carefully and respond.
His research indicates that Spanish - speaking students, if rapidly immersed in English - language instruction, are more likely to go to college than those placed in bilingual education programs.
Another is to immerse them in the culture of the language they're studying when that culture may be half a world away.
This Primary immerses pupils in 4 modern languages, with amazing results
This would immerse the student not only in the language but in the culture, or to go a step further, these augmented glasses could project a real - time French classroom that they would be able to interact with just like the one they were currently in.
Foreign - language - immersion schools can be defined broadly as those in which students spend at least 50 percent of their time learning while immersed in a nonnative language (Lenker and Rhodes, 2007).
From kindergarten through second grade, students learn math and science while immersed in their second language.
They were immersed in a new language and area of study in a collaborative, student - driven, interactive, face - to - face and online environment.
World Language Academy students can immerse themselves in a world language, choosing from among six different languages and extracurricular language clubs.
Programs such as Ninth Street's are based on research that favors giving immigrant students a strong base in their native language before immersing them in English.
They are designed to help teachers ensure that all of their students get the time to play and explore, become immersed in oral language and content knowledge, and practice skills and habits of character that they need — both to live joyfully and to be fully successful and proficient.
Education, Economic Development Keys to Improving Cities Like Worcester Worcester Telegram and Gazette, April 30, 2012 «Paul Reville, state secretary of education, said children in these middle - sized must be immersed at an early age in «literacy rich» environments, and said particular attention should be paid to English language learners.
Some students still learn in bilingual settings, where they gradually transition from their home language to English, while most others are immersed in English right away, usually with the help of specialized programs that help them learn English.
The charter is a dual - language elementary school known as Hola, where kids are immersed in Spanish from kindergarten when their young brains absorb languages easily.
This framework provides ample time for students to be immersed in the topic, exapanding their academic knowledge and vocabulary as they build literacy and language skills.
Students immerse themselves in foreign language courses that emphasize not only communication, but also linguistics, culture, media, and literature, while training to become effective classroom leaders.
They entered kindergarten as monolingual English speakers, and they were immediately immersed in classes where Spanish was the language of instruction.
Much of the disagreement centers on whether to fully immerse students in English in school or to supplement English with instruction in their home language.
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