Sentences with phrase «little knowledge of language»

At that time, teachers had little knowledge of language development and how to deliver content effectively to students who were not native speakers of English.

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So with our little knowledge of the Italian language, we manage to make an appointment with Morena, the owner's daughter, and her husband Raffaelo, who also works at the gourmet food company.

James said limited English language proficiency, limited work experience and limited or no knowledge of their workplace rights can further contribute to a dynamic where they feel they have little option but to accept the unlawful practices.

Have you ever listened to someone speaking a foreign language of which you have little or no knowledge?

What was impossible two decades ago is practicable in a matter of minutes with little more than a laptop, free statistical software such as R, or knowledge of simple programming languages like Python.

The problem was, how do you account for how a little kid, who has no prior knowledge of how a particular language works and who isn't going to get explicit lessons about how to use which words in which circumstances, figures out what words mean and what sentences they can be used in?

A young South Korean student in the same class spoke little English, but had a great deal of content knowledge in her first language.

We recognise that pupils have very different experiences of studying modern foreign languages at primary school and so we assume very little prior knowledge of French or Spanish on joining the school in Year 7.

The practice of testing Latino students in English before they have mastered the language reveals a lot about these students» language deficiencies in English but little about their knowledge of mathematics, science, or social studies.

Although researchers like Keene and Zimmerman have identified central strategies for strengthening reading comprehension, early elementary teachers wonder how they can use such strategies with prereaders who have little knowledge of books or even the English language.

The differences can be hard to spot for many people, but with a little knowledge and a better understanding of canine body language, we can better determine which type of reactivity we've got.

It would be foolhardy for a computer scientist with little or no knowledge of such complexity of language and / or social structure to try to create a «semantic web» in a top - down approach, and any such attempt to create a prescriptive corset — and to force users to use it — will certainly fail.

Europeans with little knowledge of Indigenous languages and cultural practices produced colonial maps, so they must be understood as incomplete reflections of the reality on the ground at the time.

One potential project is to design a programming language that would let coders with little knowledge of cryptography create more secure apps.

Eventually the link between generations of speakers was broken, so that many children had little or no knowledge of their traditional languages.