Sentences with phrase «languages department at»

«The most effective use of the Internet is computer - mediated communication — chat, email, video, audio — a way for students to get in contact with students in other countries,» explains Robert Fischer, executive director of the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium and chair of the modern - languages department at Texas State University at San Marcos.

The Army Language School became the DLI West Coast Branch, and the foreign language department at the Naval Intelligence School became the DLI East Coast Branch.

Not exact matches

At the federal level, the US Department of Energy's much - anticipated study on grid reliability deliberately removed language noting harm from climate change between the draft and final versions.

When Linskey once visited the produce department of its location in Santa Ana, Calif., «There were eight different languages being spoken at one time,» he recalls.

Lead author, from the pediatrics department at Women and Infants Hospital in Providence, R.I., Dr. Betty R. Vohr, says, «We know that talking and playing with an infant improves cognitive and language skills.

Formerly a Coordinator for the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Sarah is able to use her language skills and interest for international health and social issues for community outreach, and to engage with French - speaking clients.

In announcing the decision to repeal the Obama - era DACA program, Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who announced the change at the Justice Department, both used the aggrieved language of anti-immigrant activists, arguing that those in the country illegally are lawbreakers who hurt native - born Americans by usurping their jobs and pushing down wages.

The language of the presidential fiat leaves the disbursement of funding for «law enforcement purposes» at the discretion of Gen. John Kelly, the new secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, as well as the incoming U.S. Attorney General.

At the same time, Nolan said state budget language could force the department to provide greater oversight of parent involvement programs.

Speaking in turns on a theme: «English Studies in Non-Native Environments; Reflections and Projections» at the 32nd Annual National Conference of the English Scholars» Association of Nigeria (ESAN), on Wednesday, at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile - Ife, a Professor of Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis in the Department of English, University of Ibadan, Professor Akin Odebunmi, charged government and stakeholders to fine tune the acquisition of English language by introducing non-native English in nation's education curricula.

The NYC Department of Education has been trying to recruit and retain teachers of color, bilingual teachers and male teachers in an effort to have the adults in the classroom look more like the students, who are overwhelmingly students of color with many speaking a language other than English at home.

This release is based on early findings from «Diagnosing reading in a second or foreign language» funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and carried out by Professor J. Charles Alderson at the Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University.

At the time of the meeting, the majority of the party was vowing not to authorize funding for the Department of Homeland Security unless the legislation contained language to dismantle President Obama's executive action on immigration, but Donovan implored them anyway.

The language of Trump's dictate leaves the disbursement of monies for «law enforcement purposes» at the discretion of Gen. John Kelly, the new secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, as well as the incoming U.S. Attorney General.

The plan calls for independent oversight of the city's Housing Preservation Department; establishing a public education campaign to inform tenants about HPD's role; empowering a new body or building inspectors to collect fines against landlords; having HPD make repairs not completed by the landlord in the specified amount of time and then billing the landlord; making inspectors carry citations in multiple languages and send out reports in multiple languages; forcing landlords to make repairs within 24 hours of emergency violations; establishing an East Harlem HPD oversight team as a pilot for other areas with at - risk low - income housing; providing inspections 24 - hours - a-day, 7 - days - a-week; and improving HPD's follow - up on violations.

At a City Council hearing yesterday, Gilbert Taylor, the city's new Department of Homeless Services commissioner, said he would travel to Albany today to lobby for a change in that language, according to Capital New York.

Immigrant students facing language and cultural barriers are another part of the mix, adds Paris Svoronos, chair of the chemistry department at Queensborough Community College in Bayside, New York.

That is one of the many questions about the human trait of language acquisition that Maye, who is affiliated with Northwestern's Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, has been pursuing since she began her undergraduate work at Seattle Pacific University in Washington in 1989.

Co-author Gail Heyman, of UC San Diego's Department of Psychology, who specializes in development, added: «Demonstrating that the language you speak affects how you perceive music - at such an early age and before formal training — supports the theory of cross-domain learning.»

«When people communicate as advocates, they tend to use more certainty in their language than may be warranted,» said Vanessa Schweizer, a professor with the Department of Knowledge Integration in the Faculty of Environment at Waterloo, and who is also affiliated with the Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change.

The Department for Education has just published its national plan to improve social mobility in young people; at the heart of their strategy is the ambition to close the language gap that develops between the most and the least disadvantaged children in our society.

«Even at the sentence level of language, there is a potential loss of information over a noisy channel,» says Edward Gibson, a professor in MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (BCS) and Department of Linguistics and Philosophy.

«Although there are many reasons to believe that signed and spoken languages should be neurobiologically quite similar, evidence of overlapping computations at this level of detail is still a striking demonstration of the fundamental core of human language,» adds senior author Liina Pylkkanen, a professor in New York University's Department of Linguistics and Department of Psychology.

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.

Although there is no equivalent legislation pending in that body, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation is putting the finishing touches on a new version of the America COMPETES Act, a broader bill to reauthorize programs at NSF and research at the departments of energy and commerce that could include language on NSF's oversight of major facilities.

Across 21st Avenue, in the department of special education at Peabody College, Paul Yoder has applied event - related potential (ERP), a way of measuring how the electrical activity of the brain changes in response to thoughts or perceptions, to evaluate ways to help children overcome language delays.

«All of these nematodes speak the same chemical language,» through the use of compounds called ascarosides, said study co-author Frank Schroeder, a research scientist at the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) for Plant Research and adjunct assistant professor in Cornell's Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology.

HCREO also faulted the department for lacking Spanish - language translators, failing to return phone calls to parents, and scheduling ESA workshops during business hours when most low - income parents had to be at work.

The Department for Education revealed earlier this year that the number of students studying languages at GCSE was increasing.

If this is something the Department deems important in and of itself, however, then better language might be that a personal learning plan must be updated at least weekly based on a student's progress so that it is an active and useful tool, not a check - the - box criterion that merely encourages compliance for its own sake.

New York City Education Department to Add or Expand 40 Dual - Language Programs New York Times, 1/14/15 «But Paola Uccelli, an associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, said that some research has shown that in well - run programs, students learn both languages.

Jennifer Morrison, this year's Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development's (ASCD) Outstanding Young Educator of the Year, is an eighth grade language arts teacher and department chair at Piedmont Open IB Middle School in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Curtis Bonk, a professor in Indiana University at Bloomington's Instructional Systems Technology Department, also cites the many possibilities for students to engage in collaborative language projects online.

Nevertheless, Undersecretary Gary L. Bauer said at a briefing shortly after Mr. Bennett's Sept. 26 speech in New York City that the Education Department would seek to «broaden the definition» of transitional bilingual education to give districts more leeway in the amount of native - language instruction they provide limited - English - proficient (lep) students.

Though this may look like a feasible solution, given the low budgets training departments have at their disposal, in the long run, this will result in courses that are not linguistically accurate, as in - house subject matter experts are not language experts.

Over the objection of officials at the statistical wing of the U.S. Department of Education, the independent body that sets policy for the National Assessment of Educational Progress has approved a policy that significantly narrows the grounds for excluding students with disabilities and English - language learners from the exams.

Education officials in several states with large English - language - learner populations are bristling at a proposal by the U.S. Department of Education that they say would curb their flexibility in deciding when children are fluent in English and if they still need special services for ells.

This was just the opening round of what is likely to be a long series of acrimonious debates over policy at the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights, on topics including sexual harassment, affirmative action, instruction of English language learners and school discipline — even on who might head the agency.

With passage of the Local Control Funding Formula, California became the first state to require schools to consider how best to serve a small subset of at - risk students: youth in foster care.According to 2016 California Department of Education data, in English language arts, 56.2 percent of foster students did not meet standards on the Smarter Balanced tests (compared to 30.5 percent of non-foster students) and for mathematics, 64 percent of foster students did not meet standards (compared to 37.3 percent of non-foster students).

That's because our friends at the Department of Education read ESSA's language to mean that proficiency rates — and proficiency rates alone — must be the sole measure of «academic achievement.»

In 1992, when the new CLAS assessments were being implemented, the contract to develop national English language arts standards was awarded by the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) to the Center for the Study of Reading at the University of Illinois, in collaboration with the International Reading Association (IRA) and the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).

DOUGLAS FISHER, PhD is a professor of language and literacy education in the Department of Teacher Education at San Diego State University and a teacher leader at Health Sciences High and Middle College.

DOUGLAS FISHER, PhD is a professor of language and literacy education in the Department of Teacher Education at San Diego State University and a classroom teacher at Health Sciences High & Middle College.

DOUGLAS FISHER is a professor of language and literacy education in the Department of Teacher Education at San Diego State University and a teacher leader at Health Sciences High & Middle College.

Earlier in his career, he spent several years teaching writing, rhetoric, and English language, including a stint as professor and English department chair at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador.

Kate Kinsella, Ed.D. is an adjunct teacher educator at San Francisco State University and a highly - sought after speaker and consultant to school districts and state departments throughout the US regarding development of academic language and literacy across the K - 12 subject areas.

Recently, the language arts department at my school spent the better part of a meeting wrestling with a challenge: the apparent inability of today's teens to independently work their way through text.

Children who are strong students are strong readers, said Danielle Calvin, director of elementary English language arts at the Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE).

Then, through a series of inquiry - based discussions facilitated by Eskolta, EBCHS staff looked at a single outcome common to all departments and identified effective language that could be threaded across courses.

Interestingly, while the document on file with the State Department of Education is missing dozens of text changes, the offensive language limiting transfers into the school, unless a child is reading at or above grade level, has mysteriously been removed from this «final» copy.