Sentences with phrase «language centered on»

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Past winners include: Howard W. Lutnick, chief executive of BGC Partners, who was credited with rebuilding BGC's predecessor Cantor Fitzgerald after two - thirds of its headquarters workers were killed in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in 2010; Tom Adams, chief executive of language - learning software Rosetta Stone, in 2009, and Matthew Szulik, chairman of Red Hat open - source software, in 2008.

Today attempts to arrive at the text of the New Testament center on three sorts of materials: ancient Greek manuscripts, ancient versions in languages other than Greek (e.g., Latin, Syriac and Coptic), and early quotations said to come from the New Testament.

Today, more than a century after Lincoln articulated a moral center on behalf of national reconciliation, secularity has so infiltrated our leadership and our elite institutions that presidential candidates are reluctant to employ moral language and are uncertain about any symbolic code.

His philosophical and philological interests centered on studies in the fields of language, criticism, and aesthetics.

Doubtless it is necessary today to award less importance to Verstehen («understanding»), which is too exclusively centered on existential decision, and to consider the problem of language and of interpretation in all its breadth.

From Barth this movement has accepted the radical separation of the divine and the secular, of God and ordinary experience, and so of theological language and philosophy; and it approves his further separation of Christianity and religion, and the consequent centering of all theological and religious concerns solely on Jesus Christ.

Users can also download Portuguese - language product brochures via the site's online download center and watch the machines in action on the video channel.

In 1992, she moved to Los Angeles and was hired by Saint John's Health Center to participate as a member on their cleft palate team as well as providing pediatric and geriatric out - patient speech and language services.

The Center has gathered under one roof expert, independent practitioners from various fields — psychology, social work, pediatrics, educational and occupational therapy, neuropsychology, parent education, speech and language therapy, and on and on — with each clinician offering a connection - based perspective.

We believe children learn best in an environment rich in experiences that focus on language development, academic centers, social / emotional development, artistic expression and fine / gross motor development.

The discussions over the resolution's language have been extraordinarily fluid over the last few days, with discussions centering around how far to go on the Dream Act, as well as public financing.

Examining research on how children's home life impacts their language development, article author Natalie H. Brito at Columbia University Medical Center concluded that children from higher - income homes are typically exposed to more words, gestures, and complex grammar and phrases then their peers from low - income homes.

«Speech and language learning depend on our ability to evaluate how accurately we are producing the particular sounds associated with speech,» said Dr. Todd Roberts, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience with the O'Donnell Brain Institute at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

Kim Cecil, a chemist and professor of radiology at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and an expert on the impact of lead on the brain, has found that whereas the language - function region of the brain's left hemisphere is perturbed by chronic lead exposure, corresponding regions in its right hemisphere show increased activation in the presence of blood lead levels above current levels of concern.

In a paper that will be presented on November 4 at the annual meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Diana Deutsch, Trevor Henthorn of the Department of Psychology at the University of California San Diego and Mark Dolson of E - mu / Creative Technology Center show that native speakers of tonal languages, even those with no musical training whatsoever, exhibit a remarkable ability to sound perfect pitches.

To cast more light on the question, a team led by Rosemary Varley at the University of Sheffield in the U.K. administered a variety of tests to three men with brain damage in their language processing centers.

She has authored numerous articles and presentations on clinical supervision, supervisor workload practices, family - centered clinical practice, adult neurogenic language disorders, and learning disabilities.

«Comprehension of words relies on areas of the brain associated with motor control as well as «classic» language centers, researchers report.»

Maryann Harman explains in EarlyChildhood News that movement and early childhood development specialists believe that «[all] learning in the first fifteen months of life is centered on the vestibular system development» and that the vestibular system is very closely tied to language development.

Agnieszka Holland's In Darkness is a familiar but stirring Oscar - season specimen (it's a foreign - language - film nominee) centering on a spontaneously righteous Gentile, Leopold Socha (Robert Wieckiewicz), who becomes a guardian angel for a small group of Polish Jews after the Nazis and their Ukrainian henchman have «liquidated» their ghetto.

Gondry's entry, based on the oft - adapted 1947 novel Froth on the Daydream by Boris Vian, is a surreal French - language fantasy centering on a woman (Audrey Tautou) suffering from an unusual illness caused by a flower growing in her lungs, who is wooed by the wealthy inventor of the cocktail - mixing piano.

Instead, the action centers around Silvia Broome (Nicole Kidman), a foreign - born interpreter who has a grasp on several languages including one of Matobo's little known tribal dialects.

Flowers Details: 2014, Music Box Films Rated: Not rated The lowdown: This rare Basque - language movie centers on a woman trapped in a lifeless marriage who begins receiving flowers from an anonymous sender.

The plot of the Afrikaans - language pic is a homage to Hitchcock's Rear Window and centers on Randall, a low - level criminal recently... Read

The film focuses on a handful of the city's musicians, including Micha Biton, whose music is heavily influenced by Moroccan sounds; singer Hagit Yaso, whose parents emigrated from Ethiopia and who sings in Hebrew, English and Arabic, among other languages; Teapacs, a band whose members have Tunisian, Moroccan, Romanian, Syrian, Polish, Russian and Yemenite heritage and whose album sales exceed 300,000; and Avi Vaknin, a singer, composer and music producer who for many years managed Sderock, a music club and educational center for teenagers.

Beneath the dirt - stained, leather - bound waistcoats, the perfumed, toity language of the New World, the white bonnets and constrictive girdles, The Witch has a vicious, illicit and suspicious center and though admittedly scaled back on «scares» is deeply atmospheric, deeply disturbing and deeply great.

In a summer of intention and wandering, an Unangam Tunuu elder reflects on landscape and fauna, language students play and teach invented games, and a portrait takes shape of a place through the dim and distant glimpse of a visitor on an island in the center of the Bering Sea.

Based off the French novel Les liens du sang, Canet's English - language debut «centers on a younger brother (Crudup) who has to ask his convict older...

As Fritjof Capra, founding director of the Center for Ecoliteracy, says in an Edutopia.org video on the Edible Schoolyard, «The kid who is brilliant in math or science or language will not necessarily be brilliant in gardening.

A 2006 national survey by the Center on Education Policy, an independent advocacy organization in Washington, DC, found that in the five years after enactment of NCLB, 44 percent of districts had increased instruction time in elementary school English language arts and math while decreasing time spent on other subjects.

The course focuses on student - centered instruction in German; workshops are conducted completely in that 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.

And for the 2004 - 05 school year, the Alice Carlson Applied Learning Center, in Fort Worth, Texas, scheduled four blocks of about nine weeks each and fall and spring intersession workshops, allowing its K - 5 students time for hands - on arts, science, and computer projects or sports in addition to language arts and math enrichment.

Florida's dual - enrollment legislation, passed in 2006, expansively assured high schoolers they could attend classes at career centers, community colleges, or state universities, but then added language instructing school boards to offer dual - enrollment courses on high school campuses «whenever possible.»

The school has diversity of its own to draw on: Including those in the Bilingual Orientation Center, 27 percent of students at Stanford speak English as a second language, 28 percent qualify for free or reduced - cost lunch, and fewer than half the students are white.

Using data collected at EF centers in different parts of the world, the project focused on adolescents» academic writing proficiencies across different first languages / cultures (China, Russia, U.S.) and across different types of texts.

The grants supported research on the literacy and language development of Spanish - speaking English language learners (ELLs) conducted by investigators at the Center for Applied Linguistics and its collaborators, Harvard University, Boston College, the University of Connecticut, and the University of Houston.

Aggregate child - level assessment data means the data collected by an agency on the status and progress of the children it serves that have been combined to provide summary information about groups of children enrolled in specific classrooms, centers, home - based or other options, groups or settings, or other groups of children such as dual language learners, or to provide summary information by specific domains of development.

Schools that report low achievement for English - language learners also report low test scores for white and African - American students, and share characteristics associated with poor performance on standardized tests, according to a study released by the Pew Hispanic Center.

English - language learners are lagging significantly behind other students in passing high school exit exams, concludes a study by the Washington - based Center on Education Policy.

And potential concerns about the accuracy of the information it contains on language programs are mitigated considerably by a National Center for Educational Statistics follow - up survey that largely validated the accuracy of the program exposures initially recorded.

Read more about the students» responses — including topics related to employment and learning a second language — inside the 2017 Brown Center Report on American Education.

For example, some of the aims of California's «meaning - centered» English - language arts reform were reflected in survey data on reading instruction.

She was associate director of the National Research and Development Center on English Language Learners (2005 — 2009) that examined the effect of instructional practices that enhance vocabulary and comprehension for middle school English language learners in content areas.

Her research focuses on the language and literacy practices of Latino / a youth in nontraditional learning spaces such as afterschool programs and community centers.

English is introduced gradually into the curriculum, and all students receive high - quality instruction centered on academic success through the integration of the Spanish and English language instruction with the goal for students to become bi-literate by fifth grade.

What to watch: HIDOE intends to expand the efforts of the Teacher Induction Center to better support teachers serving special education students, English language learners, and students in the Hawaiian Language Immersion Program.19 Stakeholders and policymakers should consider how to expand and improve the induction program's services to reach all of Hawaii's teachers and then study the effect on various student populations.

Marzano Center support programs include tailored one -, two -, and three - day training sessions with the Marzano Teacher Evaluation Academy for school district leaders; customized support packages for central offices; seminars on inter-rater reliability; certifications in observer accuracy; and a full range of online, high quality, self - study courses that examine all aspects of the common language of instruction within the Marzano Teacher Evaluation Model.

He recently served as a panel member on the National Academy of Science Report on the Overrepresentation of Minority Students in Special Education, and also served as a member of the National Literacy Panel (SRI International and Center for Applied Linguistics) looking at issues in early reading with English language learners.

Based on a visual symbolic system and child - centered exploration, teachers guide children's discovery and support children's use of the 100 languages of art.