Sentences with phrase «language groups together»

They have English and Chinese - speaking dive guides and tend to keep language groups together.

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Institutions themselves, however, are hardly the final word, for they contribute to larger groups that are more loosely organized to create a culturally defined society as a whole, bound together as a unit through mutually albeit somewhat loosely reinforced language and customs.

What's beautiful about this vision is that the nations don't join together as one ethnicity, but as their own separate people groups — representing different countries and races — worshipping God equally, in their own languages and with their own cultural backgrounds.

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.

The advisory group is the direct result of a Jan. 23 meeting, organized by UFT Vice President for Education Evelyn DeJesus, which gathered together 40 teachers from the UFT's English language learner focus group to discuss their concerns with top city and state officials.

Though opposition to abortion rights is held by some mainline Democratic senators in the narrowly divided chamber — Sen. Ruben Diaz, Sr. chief among them — NARAL's ad takes on Skelos, who does not want to hold a floor vote on the bill (Cuomo is yet to release bill language on his women's agenda, first unveiled at the State of the State, and he says he's still piecing together the abortion rights proposal with women's groups).

Residents of Los Angeles grouped together to form the giant «Solar eagle», accompanied by a word that means «well - being» in the Inuit language Inuktitut.

The Language in Interaction research consortium, which is sponsored by a large grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific research (NWO), brings together many of the excellent research groups in the Netherlands in a research programme on the foundations of language.

If a group of decidedly anti-social tolls decided to make a film about relationships despite lacking any working knowledge in the areas of human behavior, cinematic craft or the basic cadences of the English language, what they might come up with would only begin to approximate what Wiseau slapped together.

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.

During group tests, four students work together to study the content, skills, and language they'll be tested on later individually.

A 4 page booklet with over 100 examples of complex language and structures for GCSE, grouped together with meanings and also translation from Engli...

In addition to using parent events to explain the EL model and how it works in a school, some schools are offering parents the opportunity to get involved in other ways through parent study groups on educational and parenting topics, filling out surveys and forms together when language or literacy issues may be obstacles, or creating parent work groups to do gardening, committee work, or coordinating school events.

Kestell, the chair of the Assembly Committee on Education, also predicted that a group put together to rewrite the Common Core English language and math standards likely would produce something similar.

(Administrators group students with similar language abilities together for these classes.)

The Families of Schools database is a free tool that groups similar schools together on factors including prior attainment, percentage of pupils eligible for free school meals and the number of children who speak English as an additional language.

«When the group first came together as a community of practice, they didn't yet have the language to articulate who they were.

We're pulling together a working group of lenders and authorizers who will try to develop a common language for evaluating the viability of charter schools.

A breakout room, group room, or other «digital space» language that designated a spot for students to work together.

The Assistive Technology Team is an interdisciplinary group of program support teachers, speech and language pathologists, occupational therapists, physical therapists and adaptive art and music professionals working together to provide assistive technology and augmentative communication to the district's staff and students.

Consider the Winnetka Plan in the 1920s, which individualized instruction; the Project Activity Method in the 1930s, which had small groups of students work together; the growth of gifted education; the mandate for special education since the 1970s; the spread of English language learning efforts in recent decades; and the contemporary «everyone goes to college» movement in urban schools.

There are two kinds of supergroups that are dominating state plans so far: 1) «high - need» groups, which lump together students who have been historically underserved, including students of color, low - income students, students with disabilities, and English learners; and 2) «lowest performing» groups, which include students in the bottom 25 percent or 30 percent of achievement within their school, regardless of demographics, English language proficiency, or disability status.

In a group, Fleer's students are less hesitant to explore language and the ways it can be put together.

In an era where NCATE standards are narrowing teacher education to mechanistic dispositions and have eliminated the social justice language from its conceptual framework, this group will come together to share how teacher educators can navigate the space within radical teaching practices that promote social justice in the world of NCATE requirements.

What more do you need to bring together the many ethnic groups that between them speak more than 700 different languages and dialects, and have created an incredibly complex culture over the centuries.

To accompany her exhibition Between the Dog and the Wolf, Van Meel has produced a publication which brings together a group of peer contributors to explore the ways in which specific use of language and words can create a sense of space, time, class and cultural identity.

Draper chose the name, which means «a group of people acting and working together» in Gikuyu, the language of the Kikuyu people of Kenya.

This fall, the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania (ICA) will present Speech / Acts, a group exhibition bringing together the work of a new generation of artists exploring how the social and cultural constructs of language have shaped black American experiences.

Grouped together under the title VOX 13 is a series of films by Peter Rose dealing with the complexities of language.

The show groups together twenty seminal paintings, dating from 1977 — 1985, which attest to the origins of Lasker's methodology, and ideas about abstraction, figuration and language.

Brand yourself with your profile language and status updates; by creating groups; by asking and answering questions through the «Answers» tab; by giving and getting recommendations; by posting events; or by bringing your connections together (i.e. a job seeker and job hunter).

By bringing together a group of captioners, consumers, and sign language interpreters, the committee was able to create the new COPE guidelines addressing the ever - evolving and specific issues surrounding communication access,» said Linda Hershey, RDR, CRR, CBC, CCP, a broadcast captioner from Chattanooga, Tenn., who co-chaired the task force.

Pidgin dialects are known to form when two or more mutually disctinctive language groups come together, and cryptocurrency is no different.

Assisted in classrooms at the local YMCA reading «corestorybooks» that promoted vocabulary and comprehension by reading high - quality children's literature together; designed fun learning activities that let children experiment and practice with words and ideas to deepen their understanding of books; and encourage social interaction through group activities designed to develop and promote language and literacy skills.

While there is a tendency across the country for Indigenous groups to describe themselves as nations defined by language, descent and territory, land and native title claims have often split groups that naturally belong together.

Though critical friends groups often occur with teachers in different locations, the teachers at this school were initially so isolated in their practice that they needed support to come together effectively and create this shared language around problem solving and practice.