Sentences with phrase «of foreign language study»

They correlate the Standards of Leaning for French, German, Latin, and Spanish with those in English and / or history and social science, and include instructional models for beginning, intermediate and advanced levels of foreign language study.

Not exact matches

In a second study, published today (June 2) in the Annals of Neurology, Bak set out to determine if the positive effects of bilingualism on cognition could actually be the other way around: that people who have better cognitive functions are more likely to learn foreign languages.

The Tower of Babel is so obviously idiotic that only someone who'd never studied liguistics or even a foreign language could buy it.

Apply the tools of learning normally reserved for studying a foreign language to this vernacular form of expression, and make this study a recognized, sanctioned part of the curriculum.

Government and universities could co-operate in training men for such work, including study of foreign languages and cultures.

All the signs of a smart idea Jonathan Reiss, 20, is pushing Oakland University in Rochester, Mich., to give him foreign - language credit for his study of American Sign Language.

Previous studies have found that 12 sessions over 5 weeks — a total of only 6 hours of foreign language exposure — was all babies needed to start setting those brain development pathways down to learn a second language.

Then there are the foreign students — all those young Chinese and Koreans studying at Central St Martin's University of the Arts in King's Cross, the European students on Erasmus exchange programmes around the country (doubly bad no doubt in Mr Farage's eyes since it's an EU scheme, that also sends Britons to the Continent, where they might too pick up the habit of speaking these foreign languages), the students from the Indian sub-continent studying engineering and computer science, students from around the globe trying to acquire or improve their grasp of the English language that can be their passport to a good job wherever in the globe they come from.

A breakdown of the figures shows a «significant increase» in applications to study strategic subjects like physics, chemistry, biology, foreign languages, which had previously been in decline.

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.

The most intense course of study, which Shenoi calls the «MacGyver Track,» imparts hardware, software, and foreign - language skills to students who intend to join the intelligence community.

It was a process of elimination: She enjoyed studying foreign languages, but she knew she wasn't interested in becoming a translator, nor did she want to major in literature.

Until, like France, Britain has a baccalaureate system, with all students studying six subjects up to the age of 19, with science students also studying a foreign language and some humanities and arts students also studying maths and some science, we will continue to have a divided and partially educated population.

«By their first birthday, babies understand that foreign languages can communicate information between people, even though the babies themselves don't understand the foreign language,» explains Athena Vouloumanos, an associate professor in NYU's Department of Psychology and the author of the study.

But if you really want to establish a family with a foreign girl and understand her always then start to study language of that country where your woman is from.

At 15, while she was studying foreign languages and modern dance, she started attending the Italian school for performing arts, Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia of Rome.

Then we watched selective campuses do away with some of their own long - standing prerequisites, such as the expectation that entering students would have studied and become reasonably proficient in at least one foreign language.

In a 2003 report, «The Complete Curriculum: Ensuring a Place for the Arts and Foreign Languages in American's Schools,» a study group from the National Association of State Boards of Education noted that a substantial body of research highlights the benefits of arts in curriculum and called for stronger emphasis on the arts and foreign lanForeign Languages in American's Schools,» a study group from the National Association of State Boards of Education noted that a substantial body of research highlights the benefits of arts in curriculum and called for stronger emphasis on the arts and foreign lanforeign languages.

Students may create several exhibit pieces per module; exhibits must include contributions from each of the core subject areas: language arts, reading, math, and science or social studies plus the related arts teams (art, foreign languages, and library).

School Reform Minister Nick Gibb said: «All pupils should have the opportunity to study foreign languages as part of a core academic curriculum that prepares them for life in modern Britain.

I don't think it is really possible to become fluent in another language, unless perhaps you live in a foreign country and make the study of its language an integral part of your life.

In keeping with the global emphasis, students study foreign language from the beginning of the program to the end.

While subject - area knowledge is privileged in the standards — INTASC has developed specific standards for science, mathematics, English language arts, and special education, and will soon release those for the elementary - school level, social studies, and foreign language — the standards also make clear that knowledge of child development, learning theory, and teaching approaches is essential.

Their reforms, in turn, have successfully steered most American students away from a liberal education, what Ravitch defines as «the systematic study of language and literature, science and mathematics, history, the arts and foreign languages.»

«No Child Left Behind established an overemphasis on reading and math and took away time from the study of languages,» says Shuhan Wang, deputy director of the National Foreign Languages Center at the University of Maryland.

We know reading, mathematics, and science are core to a good education, but we also believe that the study of international education, foreign languages, the arts, and the humanities are essential to providing a complete education for students.

The state board of education, which began studying upgrading graduation standards three years ago, also approved the establishment of a «certificate of merit» for students who take an extra year of science and earn foreign - language credit.

Reimers says he looked at a number of case studies and evaluations, as well as conducted interviews of business leaders, military officials, and the intelligence community in order to gauge how much change has occurred in foreign area expertise and foreign language over the past 50 years.

Starting in the 1980s, states increased the number of courses required for high school graduation, and began mandating students take additional courses in core academic areas such as math, science, social studies and foreign language.

12 MFL posters to showcase (some of) the type of careers available to those who study modern foreign languages.

In a study I undertook in 1989, I found that 12 percent of the elementary and middle school magnet programs in my sample specialized in basic skills and / or individualized teaching; 11 percent offered foreign language immersion; 11 percent were science -, math -, or computer - oriented; 10 percent catered to the gifted and talented and 10 percent to the creative and performing arts; 8 percent were traditional, back - to - basics programs (demanding, for instance, dress codes and contracts with parents for supervision of homework); 7 percent were college preparatory; 7 percent were early childhood and Montessori.

The report findings suggest that opportunity to study different religious faiths and traditions help promote understanding among students of different religious groups, that «carrier» subjects such as history, second or foreign languages and the social sciences, as well as physical education and art are also critical to the fostering of LTLT competencies in these countries.

The study has argued that it is not just the responsibility of the Department for Education (DfE) alone and that the UK was struggling with a skills deficit on foreign languages that would have «wide - reaching economic, political and military effects».

The logic in the division of subjects is that social studies are abstract and difficult to grasp in a foreign language, while math and science are easier to teach by demonstration.

The result is that most students decide to stop studying a foreign language once they realize they're not actually achieving their goal of speaking it.

Particularly in urban schools, the pressure from testing has narrowed the curriculum to focus on those subjects on which graduation and accreditation rest — at the expense of art, music, theater, physical education, foreign language, and even science and social studies.

Learning strategies that work for math may be different from those applied in the study of a foreign language.

English / language arts teachers make up a significant portion of the sample (36 %), reflecting the intentional design of the study, but history, social science, math, science, foreign language, art, and music teachers are also represented.

Forgetting previously learnt information in the process of learning new information is the main reason, I believe, accounting for very slow progress in achieving noticeable results in studying a foreign language.

Washington — Hoping to capitalize on what one participant called a «unique historical opportunity,» leaders of foreign - language and international - studies groups met this month to begin laying out an agenda for their field.

The six booklets — on the arts, English, foreign language, mathematics, science, and social studies — are part of the board's ongoing «Educational EQuality Project,» a 10 - year program begun in 1981 with the aim of both strengthening the academic quality of secondary education and ensuring that all high - school students have «equality of opportunity» for higher education, College Board officials say.

Results from empirical study after study reported the elimination of the arts and physical education, the over teaching of mathematics and language arts to the determinant of science,, foreign language, the arts, and other «non-core areas.

In this course of study, students are exposed to a theoretical introduction to the nature and structure of language, key factors affecting second - language acquisition, and communicative approaches to the teaching of English as a second or foreign language.

In addition, no person shall be discriminated against in admission to Brooke Charter School or in obtaining the advantages, privileges and access to the courses of study and extracurricular activities offered by the School on the basis of race, sex, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, mental or physical disability, age, ancestry, athletic performance, socioeconomic status, housing status or homelessness, special need, proficiency in the English language or a foreign language, or prior academic achievement, as required by federal and state law, including M.G.L. c. 71, § 89 (l); 603 CMR 1.06 (1); M.G.L. c. 76, § 5 and 603 CMR 26.00: Access to Equal Educational Opportunity.

The Hochman Method is a set of specific writing strategies that teachers use in all subjects, including ELA, social studies, science, foreign languages and math, and in every grade.

After the introduction of the English Baccalaureate (EBacc), which requires every current year 7 to study English, maths, science, history or geography and a modern foreign language until they are 16, there was an initial increase in the proportion of pupils taking a language at GCSE, but this number has now stagnated.

A recent study conducted by the Council for Basic Education confirms what many educators have feared: The curriculum is narrowing as schools zero in on reading, writing, and math at the expense of the arts, foreign languages, and elementary - level social studies.

In addition to these CTE courses, students can access a wide catalog of subjects ranging from foreign language to social studies.

In this course, students begin their foreign language study through listening, speaking, reading and writing activities based on pedagogically proven methods of foreign language instruction.

The task force, chaired by Joel Klein, former head of New York City public schools, and Condoleezza Rice, former U.S. secretary of state, cites mediocre U.S. showings on international assessments; high dropout rates, particularly among black and Hispanic students; poor civics performance; limited study of foreign languages; and lack of college preparedness as evidence that the nation's security is at risk.