Sentences with phrase «more accessible language»

Apart from the influence that the legislation has had on the substance of agreements, it has also resulted in a move away from technical legal jargon, in favour of simpler and more accessible language.

The NCPI seeks to translate scientific knowledge in Early Childhood to a more accessible language facilitating its use in public policies and professional practices.

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We must look instead to something more publicly accessible» that is, to the language of the Constitution itself and the conventions governing that language.

New learning methodologies allow learners to fit language learning around their existing schedules, with online and computer - based learning offering more convenient and accessible options than ever before.

Building on his administration's valuable 311 program, he promised to make government more accessible by translating city websites into six languages, distributing more information via Twitter (follow @ 311nyc) and social networking sites, enabling users to fine - tune their usage of NYC.gov around their personal information needs, and creating a free iPhone application allowing people to submit quality - of - life complaints to 311 directly from their phone.

AAAS President Margaret Mead set a precedent, having her opening address simultaneously interpreted in sign language, and strongly endorsed efforts to make science more accessible.

«The language strikes me as substantially more accessible than that of the original papers.»

«The language strikes me as substantially more accessible than that of the original papers,» says Minhyong Kim at the University of Oxford.

The site is available in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Norwegian languages to make the usage of FilipinoCupid.com more accessible for more nations.

They're also working on making it more accessible globally by expanding the available languages to serve international users.

To make JapanCupid.com accessible for more users, the site is available in five languages: English, Korean, German, Japanese and French.

NetLingo Founder Erin Jansen makes navigating the web (and its complex language) more accessible through her informational website and helpful recommendations.

The facts that Howl's Moving Castle wasn't his baby from the beginning and that it is adapted from a British novel only serve to make it more accessible to Western audiences, as does the commendable English language version overseen by Disney and Pixar.

The acting and language are much more natural, making this film easily accessible to audiences who would normally shun Dickens.

Although they are still not beating down my door to come and spend some time going through the finance systems we have in place, the supporting notes, which are far more accessible with (on the whole) plain, easy to understand, language, makes the role a little less highbrow and specialist.

Do use visuals, sketches, gestures, intonation, and other non-verbal cues to make both language and content more accessible to students.

Scratch Tutorial: Scratch is a free programming language developed by MIT to make computer programming more accessible to children.

Through that online platform, computing knowledge can become more widely accessible and a part of our day - to - day language that everyone should have the opportunity to learn.

Unfortunately, the realities of the modern school day, with numerous state and federal standards and mandates, often squeeze out language instruction from the schedule — despite significant interest from educators and parents in making language learning more accessible.

Including extracts from Dickens, Bronte and Shakespeare, but also more modern, accessible texts such as Willy Russell's Our Day Out, Harry Potter and Roald Dahl's Boy, this collection aims to provide a wide range of texts through which to study the range of skills vital in the new curriculum, such as pre-19th Century Literature, poetry, comparison of theme and time period, language and structural features.

This publication describes this new effort as a campaign across California to develop strong, articulated, equitably accessible preschool through high school programs and learning opportunities that will prepare students with high level proficiency in two or more languages.

Keep your language simple and accessible, and if there's dead space after you've given your answer, take control of the interview with a simple question such as... do you have any more questions?

Each word features a student - friendly definition in both text and audio and is translated into multiple languages to make it more accessible for ELLs.

Students develop an understanding of the theory and methods of teaching linguistically diverse learners, including models for designated and integrated English language development as well as sheltering strategies to make content more accessible.

Used daily by millions of young people around the world, Read & Write literacy support software makes the web and documents more accessible for reluctant readers, individuals with dyslexia and other learning difficulties, as well as students whose first language isn't English.

We need exam boards to work with schools to make languages more accessible.

If the choice process is made more accessible to parents regardless of social class, language or education then as a nation we can embody President Obama's words in that «Where you start should not determine where you end up.

Regulation Room, DOT's 2010 flagship initiative, makes Federal rulemaking more accessible to people not familiar with the legal or technical aspects of the rulemaking process, by providing detailed summaries of key provisions in a plain language format with references to the actual rulemaking language.

The plain - spoken language of this memoir makes it all the more moving, while Lowery's detail - rich memories of her community, their shared purpose, and her own experiences make it particularly accessible to young readers.

An announcement today from the world's leading provider of digital content to libraries just made foreign language texts more accessible to US readers.

This partnership will make native language titles accessible to teachers and students for a more immersive learning experience.

txtr currently has the largest catalogue of eBooks, more than 400,000, in Western languages, which are directly accessible through the in - app store of the app.

These text features, which are emphasized in the CCSS «Craft and Structure» standards, support readers and add layers to learning by helping to shift focus on different types of information presented in a variety of ways; breaking up text on a page and providing visually appealing components — thereby creating a more accessible format that can help entice English - language learners and struggling readers.

Foreign - language - reader assistance would be another (Amazon Japan could sell a lot more light novels by adding ruby text and vocabulary links that make them more accessible to Americans studying Japanese).

You want to know if some of that unique language isn't working or if it can be made more accessible.

While this has made language lessons more accessible then ever, it can be difficult to assess their quality when you don't know the language in the first place.

But you may be able to derive some of the benefit of thinking in a non-native language in a more accessible way.

Micah was selected because she is fluent in Spanish and plans to own a veterinary practice that makes veterinary services more accessible to families who do not speak English as a first language.

I understand that it's common to other games and that maintaining a consistent language across boss fights makes them more accessible for casual fans, but

The painters and sculptors of the Italian Renaissance are most noted for their melding of religion and realism; the Romantic movement in England, appropriately, centered on the artist's individual feelings and motivations while still making the language accessible to the common reader; China's Tang Dynasty allowed art and poetry became more popular among the middle and lower classes than ever before, and while landscapes and nature remained the focal point of most art, increased contact with new foreign countries expanded their own artists» techniques.

Its language would be more accessible.»

Whereas in the past poetic language was deliberately oblique, now it has become clearer and more readily accessible.

By coopting parts of that language I am able to communicate non-specific references and influences in a way that make them accessible but still mysterious... I like the tension created by referencing a language that we expect to deliver some sort of information or message but keeping that message elusive to create a more contemplative moment.»

The prominent use of an abbreviated name may be no more than a culture - bound quirk of language usage, but some other possibilities include conveying a sense of diminution, rendering familiar and accessible what might otherwise be complex and distant.

In a career spanning more than five decades, Ruscha has distilled the archetypal signs and symbols of the American vernacular into typographic and cinematic codes that are as accessible as they are profound.The wry choice of words and phrases that pervade his work draws upon the moments of incidental ambiguity implicit in the interplay between language and the concept that it signifies.

Szehin Ho acknowledges the difficulty of moving beyond English if you want to be accessible and legible to the international art world, but the discussion moves to a more nuanced account of how each publication manages the limitations of language.

... would perhaps, with appropriate modifications / simplifications of language, be more accessible to the public than GCM.

On a more general point, we should be able to explain easily reproducible phenomena in language accessible to the (relatively) lay public.

Morton claims only that he has constructed a plausible pathway for a beneficial deployment of SAI — for which his alias of «veil making», used ostensibly to avoid technical language, softens the idea, making it more palatable as well as more accessible.

The implication is that if we can successfully modify the language of the law and make it more accessible, system legitimacy is restored without the need for further questions or changes.