Sentences with phrase «nonnative speakers»

For example, at the federal level there is a strong effort to improve the education of students with disabilities and of nonnative speakers of English.

English has become the lingua franca of the scientific community over the past decades, and as a result there is an increasing need for nonnative speakers to learn the language of science and technology — English for Science and Technology (EST)-- in order to enable them to take part in international scientific communication.

Their primary charge is to bring nonnative speakers up to speed, but writing coaches can be a great help to everyone.

In experiments, linguistics graduate student Tessa Bent and her colleagues at Northwestern University observed that nonnative listeners found the English of nonnative speakers just as intelligible as that of natives.

Nonnative speakers seem to understand each other's accented English just fine.

She suspects the benefit can be traced to similarities in the ways nonnative speakers acquire and use English.

This presentation will help you consider the necessary language skills and strategies needed to enable nonnative speakers of English to be successful.

However, it is unclear if a relationship exists between extroversion - introversion traits and English language proficiency for nonnative speakers.

Also, at the successful schools, an instructional focus on academic English gave all students — both native and nonnative speakers of English — an advantage on the state test.

A knowledge of a foreign language — especially the language of the country you are teaching in — is a considerable asset, for it gives you an insight into how language works as well as allowing you to recognise the problems the nonnative speaker has in learning the English language.

That difference, he adds, might not be clear to a freshly arrived Japanese postdoc who's asked to sign a complex agreement that «is probably baffling to a nonnative speaker of English.»

For instance, nonnative speakers from a variety of first - language backgrounds tend to overemphasize the ending consonant in words like «what,» a tactic other nonnative speakers would recognize and understand.

ASCD believes that to close the achievement gap, all underserved populations — high - poverty students, students with special learning needs, students of different cultural backgrounds, nonnative speakers, and urban and rural students — must have access to

ASCD believes that all underserved populations — high - poverty students, students with special learning needs, students of different cultural backgrounds, nonnative speakers, and urban and rural students — must have access to

At least one other measure of academic improvement, like graduation rates and, for nonnative speakers, proficiency in English, must be included.