Sentences with phrase «language groups such»

The foreign - language groups such as the Lutherans went with their people out on the Pennsylvania and Ohio frontier.

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«Being shown in 80 - plus countries and translated into 17 languages has garnered us such a wide group of people that recognize our brand,» he says.

In tough language, the letter contends that such a policy undermines the entire life sciences community and sends a devastating message to immigrants who would otherwise bring their talents to the United States, and was signed by some heavy hitters, including Alnylam CEO John Maraganore and Ron Cohen, the chairman of biotech's biggest trade group and lobbying arm.

Often there are real relationships in nature on the basis of which such groupings are identified in language.

On the other hand, they are a special group in respect to such features as rational capacity, imagination, memory, foresight, language, and the ability to create and transmit culture.

«Low - intensity conflicts,» «risk - taking,» «management of power,» «instrument of policy»: such language suggests an encounter group dealing with personal problems or a union - management negotiation.

Foreign Languages Ideally, Waldorf schools include two modern foreign languages from different language groups in the curriculum such as Spanish and German or French.

The study's co-author Rebecca Treiman, a professor of psychological and brain sciences, explained that the study showed that children actually display knowledge about the formulas of written language, such as which letters are usually grouped together before they learn what those letters actually represent.

During weekly meetings, parents may opt to teach a subject such as a foreign language or a science lab to a group of students.

Findings from the National Early Head Start Research and Evaluation project, a rigorous Congressionally - mandated study, indicate that the program had modest but positive impacts on EHS children at age three in cognitive, language, and social - emotional development, compared to a control group.xxiii In addition, their parents scored higher than control group parents on such aspects of the home environment as parenting behavior and knowledge of infant - toddler development.

In such a town a sensitive nature feels more acutely than elsewhere the misery caused by language division and sees at every step that the diversity of languages is the first, or at least the most influential, basis for the separation of the human family into groups of enemies.

Miliband's repeated use of the language of «our economy», «wages,» and «working people,» coupled with his shunning of variants of «control» and of references to «migrants» as a group or in particular categories such as students and family members, supports this sort of interpretation.

The work uses strong nation - building references, such as referential movement depicting a group of people going towards their death, then becoming trees, ocean, and forming a strong collective out of a group of individuals; its language movement is very dramatic and places a strong emphasis on unison movement rather than individual dancers.

Not only does this mean that colleges are now awash with therapy groups, workshops such as «Keeping Calm and in Control», «Mindfulness for Depression» «Anxiety 101», but many contemporary free speech disputes are couched in the language of psychological harm.

«The existence of such complex social classifications in baboons, a species without language, suggests that the social pressures imposed by life in complex groups may have been one factor leading to the evolution of sophisticated cognition and language in our pre-human ancestors.»

Within the bilingual group of toddlers, those who had amassed a greater number of «doublets» — pairs of words in each language, such as dog / chien — performed even better on the conflict inhibition tasks.

Clyde Francks, head of the MPI research group «Brain and behavioral asymmetries» and Research Fellow at the Donders Institute at the Radboud University, explains, «We think that these very early left - right differences in the spinal cord may act to trigger some of the later asymmetries of the brain, such as the eventual dominance of the left hemisphere for language functions in most adults».

The researchers next asked parents of three groups of children — Turner's females, normal females, and normal males, who get their single X chromosome from the mother — to rate their children's cognitive skills, such as awareness of other people's feelings and interpreting body language.

«It is the first study with such a large sample of individuals and includes the entire range of language variability implemented in the brain,» explains Nathalie Tzourio - Mazoyer, head of the Neurofunctional Imaging Group at the Institute of Neurodegenerative Diseases of the University of Bordeaux (France) and principal author of the work, to Sinc.

A research group led by Jonathan Aldrich, associate professor in the Institute for Software Research (ISR), is developing a programming language called Wyvern that makes it possible to construct programs using a variety of targeted, domain - specific languages, such as SQL for querying databases or HTML for constructing Web pages, as sublanguages, rather than writing the entire program using a general purpose language.

Calling the study «fantastic,» psychologist Lisa Feigenson of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, says that because there is such a «drastic» difference in number sense between the Pirahã and most other human groups, it must be their language that limits their conceptual abilities.

DR ANDREW WAKEFIELD: Well this work started just over a year ago when we were contacted by a group of mothers who complained that their children had been developing perfectly normally until they had encountered an environmental insult, in many cases they claimed it was the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, and then had lost their... all their acquired skills, such as speech, language, developmental milestones.

Define slang: language peculiar to a particular group: such as; argot; jargon — slang in a sentence We've been just a little bit obsessed with old timey and subcultural slang here at the Floss as of late, and today we're going to mine one of the

More often, if support is provided within state schools, it may well be from a teaching assistant (supporting in the classroom and / or delivering a recommended written language programme, such as in a small group).

And it put a special focus on ensuring that states and schools boost the performance of certain groups of students, such as English - language learners, students in special education, and poor and minority children, whose achievement, on average, trails their peers.

Some civil rights organizations say lumping together different types of students, such as English - language learners and students in special education, makes it much tougher to see how individual groups are progressing relative to other groups of students and the student population as a whole.

The challenge is particularly testing when it comes to «live» events such as webinars, online group discussions, and other activities where international students will have to speak - up in their second language while watched by people they do not know.

The report findings suggest that opportunity to study different religious faiths and traditions help promote understanding among students of different religious groups, that «carrier» subjects such as history, second or foreign languages and the social sciences, as well as physical education and art are also critical to the fostering of LTLT competencies in these countries.

Many of the requests for help we receive come from group travel leaders preparing to take visits that did not include outdoor and adventurous activities, but were typically curriculum - based tours, such as history and modern language residentials or concert tours.

Weighted lotteries can give certain groups of students — such as those from low - income families or English - language learners — a better chance of getting into a school.

Some of the particular strategies we use to respond to learner need may be new — or newly adapted to provide support for particular groups of learners (such as English language learners or students with learning disabilities).

Small - group instruction, offering a chance for deeper discussion and usage of vocabulary, is where educators can also provude support with basic vocabulary words, such as household items and terms for family members — words whose meanings EL students already know in their home language, but which they need to label in English.

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.

If such petition is based upon results of the «all student» group on the English language arts and mathematics assessments or graduation rate, such petition shall be submitted pursuant to a date prescribed by the commissioner but no later than December 31st of the calendar year in which such assessments were administered, except that the commissioner may for good cause accept a petition submitted after such date.

Further, our approach allows the Center to chart explicitly how the new standards are influencing instruction for different groups for different students, such as English language learners, students with disabilities, and low - achieving students.

When we adjusted the gains made by students in each school to take into account a wide variety of individual and peer - group background characteristics, such as ethnicity, English language - learner status, family income, and student mobility rates, the yardstick's performance actually worsened.

Schools are the means by which groups cultivate souls by teaching behaviors that become distinct characteristics of its society such as language, customs, and behaviors for socializing within the group.

Given the difficulty of classifying this group of students, we acknowledge and hope to explore further the ways in which «first - generation» is defined, as well as other sub-categorizations that must be considered in addressing the needs of this population, such as a student's race, country of birth, language proficiency, school quality, and geographic location.

Encourage the use of disaggregated demographic data — such as on first - generation, low - income, racial / ethnic minority students; adult students; students with second - language backgrounds; undocumented students; veterans; students with disabilities; and foster care, disconnected, and formerly incarcerated youth — to inform the practices and policies that may hold promise for specific groups of students

This question becomes especially critical for traditionally marginalized student groups, such as English learners who already face the challenges of finding their social identity and learning a new language while discovering their academic identity as well.

Three states — in addition to the law's assessment requirements — use another cut of test score data such as improvement among subgroups of students, including those from low - income families, students from major racial and ethnic groups, students with disabilities, and English language learners.

Some groups, such as students with learning disabilities, first - generation college goers, English language learners, and undocumented students or families, will need targeted programs that deliver information and encouragement about postsecondary options in a clear and convincing way.

While over forty years after the establishment of such formal teaching of Hawaiian in the public high schools, the new aspirations of Kamehameha to become a college preparatory school, Ms. Kahananui's seriousness of purpose, and the strong interest of a core group of students makes this course a stepping stone to a new level of Hawaiian language teaching.

The Indian publishing sector is growing at an impressive rate — not only because new target groups are being tapped: Many multinational publishing companies based in India now publish books in Indian regional languages such as Hindi and Marathi, thereby not only growing in terms of local authors, but also opening new business areas in the licensing market.

With groups of people in such countries now starting to speak of a hollowness in their lives, and to call for a more ubuntu - like set of values by which to steer, perhaps the time is right for a word that means what ubuntu means to find its way into every language.

The questions ranged from the very obvious demographic type questions, such as age group, first language spoken, and unintrusive questions about the ages of family members.

Notable and bestselling authors published under Ms. McGuire's direction include Lee Child, Daniel Coyle, Rocco DiSpirito, Janet Evanovich, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Emily Giffin, Ashley Judd, Jonathan Kellerman, Dean Koontz, Debbie Macomber, Jodi Picoult, Leah Remini, Jenny Sanford, and Danielle Steel, and her group made breakout bestsellers of sophisticated popular fiction titles such as LOVING FRANK by Nancy Horan, THE PARIS WIFE by Paula McLain, DEFENDING JACOB by William Landay, and THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS by Vanessa Diffenbaugh.

There is no universal definition of «no - kill» that is understood by animal welfare professionals, and the general public, despite efforts of some groups to create such language.

Drawing its title from Walter Benjamin's essay On language as Such and on the Language of Man (1916), the show features a diverse international group of seven artists: Carol Bove, Claudia Comte, Michael Dean, Adam Pendleton, Tino Sehgal, Chris Watson, and Hannah Weiner.

With the emergence of an exclusively language - based art in the 1960s, however, conceptual artists such as Joseph Kosuth, Lawrence Weiner and the English Art & Language group began a far more radical interrogation of art than was previously possible (see below).