Sentences with phrase «master the language of»

He or she is less enthusiastic about having to master the language of another subject, especially one that seems irrelevant.

Once the entire staff has mastered the language of instructional excellence and knows the expectations, administrators and coaches begin doing regular, random classroom observations looking for the specific strategies and using their observation checklist to document what they see.

Mastering the language of the body can help us find the balance.

Not exact matches

A basic understanding of various programming languages can benefit anyone, even if you're not looking to become a master coder.

We've taken many of those common concepts and created a kid friendly version, the idea being that KidScript is a first step, that once mastered, they can then go and master more complex languages as well.

A successful marketing manager is a master of language; he or she can tell a compelling story in any medium.

Much of communication is nonverbal, so mastering your body language presentation is a must.

In order to qualify for the Beryl Wilson Austrade Scholarship, applicants must be female, Australian citizens, enrolled full time in the final year of a master's degree by pursuing coursework in international business or a master of business administration with an international business specialization, and fluent in an Asian language.

At his lecture he set aside his prepared notes and instead described the severe Prussian discipline of his own education: the classics he had to master; the languages he had to learn by exercises and constant tests.

-LSB-...] In contrast, we have the nondualist example of a Zen master [Nagarjuna], who plays with language — moving in and out of it freely — because he is not caught in it.

Roberts analyzes the destructive nature of anger that Paul warned about using metaphors from psychology and computer language to clarify anger's positive and negative qualities, and to present a Christian model of how to master its destructive potential.

For several decades, Charlie was probably the most widely known and beloved figure in the world — not only because he was a master clown communicating through the universal language of pantomime, but because he grappled comically with universal human problems.

Then he sent letters to all the king's provinces, to each province in its own script, and to every people in their own language, that each man should be master in his own house, and speak in the language of his own people.

I have some experience with it, having studied and taught it to undergraduate students for ten years, and having practiced Buddhist meditation periodically, most meaningfully under the guidance of a Zen Buddhist master from Japan for whom I served as a language instructor for one year.

The tasks of infancy are first to learn the differentiation of objects; second to master spoken language; and third, to be able to use that language for a classified and enlarged enjoyment of objects (see, AE 31).

I think it is true to say that preaching at the present time is rarely artistic, because many preachers, while good journeymen, have not become true masters of the English language.

We begin to formally educate a child at the age of six, and twelve years later frequently find we have failed, not because school material is intrinsically difficult (the task of learning a new language is much more so, yet the child masters it in thee years); we find failure because we have ignored the fact that the developing personality has a natural sway, to and fro, which Whitehead says results in a «craving» to be continually refreshed by the experience of starting anew.

All writers must master the craft of literature, the possibilities of language, the examples of tradition, and then match that learning with the personal drive for perfection and innovation.

Narsai's gift for language made him a master of the Syriac idioms.

Speaking from the other side of the fence as a (former) seminary instructor, what you're saying is the exact same thing we hear from * every * student that didn't master one or both languages.

From the basic «master story» of a culture or community to the tiniest metaphor, our language results in social attitudes, behavior, roles, and structures.

Mastering the faculty's language, learning how to debate within the school's ideological limits, negotiating the foibles and passions of teachers and other students, figuring out how to be accepted in this community and then how to relate to the folks back home — this struggle can be debilitating as well as exhilarating.

In evocative language, the christological hymn functions as a master image of the Christian view of the world.

In the language of the three great «masters of suspicion,» it must be a critique of ideologies (Marx), a critique of all flights and evasions into otherworldliness or illusion (Nietzsche), a struggle against avoidance and arrested development (Freud).

Accordingly, it is a necessary condition for skillful use of the vocabulary of color to master a socially established language.

We need to understand the language and master the tools of the modern world.

Obviously you are not The Master of the English language.

For Heidegger, language is not a bag of tools, a pile of raw material to be used by man, the master of his world.

The religious use of biblical language about masters and servants and slaves and redemption and bought with a price and bondservant and lord and service and unquestioning obedience, etcetera, all come from an age when slavery was an assumed, acceptable and even enviable way of life.

He had a Greek dictionary, and was convinced that there was no way to penetrate the meaning of the Christian texts except by mastering the original language.

In this poem Lanier meant to be definite and, being a master of language, he succeeded.

Finally there was a word of obviously genuine sorrow that Erasmus was engaged in a quarrel with the scholar Lefevre d'Etaples, with the usual complicated mixture of judgements: «Erasmus is certainly by far the superior of the two, and he is a great master of language.

The Buddha - Carita of Asvaghosa is the great Buddhist epic, «an actual epic created by a real poet, who, filled with intense love and reverence for the exalted figure of the Buddha, and deeply imbued with the truth of the Buddha doctrine, was able to present the life and doctrine of the Master in noble and artistic, but not artificial language.

He was (ordinarily) the master of his own language.

After receiving his Bachelor of Arts in English and Philosophy from the University of Texas and Masters of Arts in Humanities from the University of Chicago, Scott found himself teaching language arts and writing, giving him a greater understanding of how to communicate with the masses.

Many of those we have trained in extension of postharvest technology have gone on to use their knowledge and skills for their Master's or PhD research studies, to design extension programs for local farmers, and to develop their own postharvest handling «train the trainers» programs in their own languages.

Being natural masters of the English language all three of the kids in the van immediately interpreted that to mean that I wasn't going to continue searching for playgrounds.

Janel Umfress is an educational therapist with an in - depth understanding of language - based learning disorders, a Master's degree in Communicative Disorders, a California Speech Language Pathology license, and a special education teaching credential.

She has a Masters degree in Multicultural Education from Eastern University and a Bachelor of Arts in elementary education with concentrations in early childhood, teaching English as a second language and anthropology.

Linda earned her bachelor's degree with honors in the field of humanities from The Johns Hopkins University and master's and doctorate degrees in German languages and literature from the University of Pennsylvania.

In legal language, the term paterfamilias was used to refer to any male who was not under the power of a father or master.

They may not master the language milestones at the same time as other children, and it may be a sign of a language or speech delay or disorder.

The common core standards are a new set of national benchmarks to help public school students master language arts and mathematics.

I bulldoze through the barriers of academia in another language and graduate with a masters degree at distinction level in my pocket.

Meanwhile, licensing rules in most states do little more than «screen out the bottom few who can't master the English language or are badly schooled,» says Eric Nadelstern, the former New York City deputy schools chancellor and visiting professor of practice at Columbia University's Teachers College.

I remember, back as a student starting out with two majors, biology and English language and literature, at the University of Szeged in Hungary in 1993, how keen I became to study anthropology for my master's in biology in a foreign country.

As an undergraduate, she juggled three part - time jobs and struggled to master a new language; she only had 6 months of English lessons before starting college.

But for native Anglophones, the challenges are subtle and paradoxical: to avoid complacency — specifically, the belief that one's native mastery of the world's lingua franca confers an inherent and permanent advantage — and marginalization as billions around the world who also know other languages master and colonize our native tongue.

Chomsky's works, most notably Syntactic Structures (1957) and Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (1965), presented a revolutionary approach to understanding language structure, known as generative grammar, positing that every child has the innate capacity to master language.

Every infant is a natural - born linguist capable of mastering any of the world's 7,000 languages like a native