Sentences with phrase «of language abilities»

Deaf children whose hearing losses were diagnosed by 6 months of age and provided early intervention shortly after diagnosis showed typical development of language abilities as compared to those who were diagnosed later and subsequently, if at all, provided early intervention services (Yoshinaga - Itano, Sedey, Coulter, & Mehl, 1998).

Children arrive at school with a wide range of language abilities.

Or any solid comparison of language abilities in both regions?

Summer - born children were perceived by teachers to have lower levels of language ability and have more instances of behaviour problems.

And likewise, for the test - taker, the specific focus on language skill will lead to a more natural display of language ability, leading to an effective and proper assessment.

Film's potential in language learning, then, has implications for students of all language ability levels.

The group say lack of language ability loses the UK an estimated 3.5 per cent of economic performance.

AND — All ELL students (regardless of their language ability) must take the math and science portions of the CMT / CAPT in English.

Alongside parents» cognitive support, global measures of the affective quality (e.g., warmth, positivity, responsiveness) of parent - child interactions appear positively related to: (i) preschool children's early academic skills (as measured by tests of language ability and parent - rated school - readiness)(Leerkes et al., 2011); (ii) literacy, mathematics and teacher - rated academic competence in middle childhood (e.g., NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2008); and (iii) academic achievement in adolescence (Jimerson et al., 2000).

Not exact matches

The points system sees would - be immigrants graded on a scale of 100, with points awarded for language ability, age, education, work experience and adaptability to Canada.

(Google hasn't fared as well in Russia, where rival Yandex dominates thanks, in part, to its ability to accommodate the peculiarities of the Russian language.)

Clinicians can measure language ability by having a patient describe a picture, for instance, said Dr. Seyed Sajjadi of the University of Southern California, a neurologist who specializes in dementias.

If his hypothesis holds true, it seems only fitting that we remain ever critical of our language, of its ability to bias our beliefs.

As technological advances such as machines being able to acquire natural language abilities that match median human capability, the numbers and types of activities that are technically susceptible to automation will increase.

Through a series of experiments, researchers from the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business and the University of California, Berkeley discovered that spoken language most clearly reveals a person's thinking ability.

Gross says focusing on video games was as much about the science of tracking and collecting information about patients» vision, as it is about the psychology in having a testing format that appeals to a wide range of ages and cognitive abilities — from children through elderly — regardless of reading or language skills.

Half of the city's population is German, and Schaefer's ability to speak the language, as well as Russian, is what distinguishes his business.

Part of Buffett's genius has long been his ability to explain the financial workings of a massive conglomerate in language that real people use.

The (until now) uniquely human ability to understand the complexities of language, multiplied by the speed of computational efficiency, results in a very effective response program.

But there was no improvement in verbal functioning and language schools, other than the ability to order, without a trip of the tongue, that «grande, quad, nonfat, one - pump, no - whip mocha.»

Use this guide to enhance your ability to speak the language of sports in today's corporate world, and your team will stick to you like pine tar... I mean glue... no, wait.

One possible reason for this ability is that the very processes of learning two languages and switching back and forth between them train the brain to be more attuned to auditory information, Bak said.

There's no question that body language plays a huge role in your ability to persuade others to your way of thinking.

A fatty outer coating for our trillions of nerve fibres, myelin is thought by some to be the key to our ability to develop complex skills like language.

None of the current crop are anywhere close to possessing the capabilities, let alone the wit and wisdom, of a human assistant in most areas (even if their language translation abilities are beyond most humans, though).

It isn't clear, though, that having learned to express themselves well in an investor's language has nailed the entrepreneurs ability to really think through the risks and evolve a plan with great promise and chances of success.

Perhaps when liberals were in power and had greater ability to influence the press, they might have considered reforming themselves and their use of language.

In order to take advantage of the Pixel Buds» ability to translate foreign languages in real time, you have to use them with a Google Pixel or Pixel 2 smartphone.

Rogers was well known for his ability to read the body language of his clients.

It ranked more important than the quality of their listings, their Chinese language abilities or even their experience working with Chinese buyers.»

It is hard to overestimate the power of naming in DeLillo's fiction, and of language's ability to help an individual develop both consciousness and a conscience.

In comparison with this freedom, to rejoice in being caught in a language that has lost its ability to represent any truth brings to mind Bernard Shaw's comment on the pleasures of an endless holiday: a good working definition of hell.

My answer is in the affirmative, because of evangelicalism's ability to harness the language of crisis to facilitate renewal.

Knowledge of a language consists in the ability to recognize and use the patterns adopted to express meanings.

But when we go down deep into the inner man, the Holy Spirit and our spirit join together, creating a new language ability, a new power of communication with God, and we speak directly with God.11

Christianly speaking, one grows conceptually by having one's abilities and capacities in relation to language — and therewith to ritual action, normative patterns of behavior, exemplary persons, music, art, etc. disciplined by just these biblical narratives.

I thank God that today we have the ability to research the origins and development of language, and do not have to be held prisoner by aberrations and perversions of words that convey distortions of truth.

Those who have had basic courses in the biblical languages and are willing to devote 20 minutes a day to such language study should gain enough language ability to base their sermon text study on the original text, and they should have enough linguistic skill to use the best of the great philological commentaries, which often cite words from the original languages.

But our language is being debased in the most profound sense when it loses the ability to discern and describe the lineaments of our moral lives.

Moreover, spokesmen manifested an uncanny ability to translate the tangled argot of the apocalyptic tradition into the language of the pews and the streets.

The work of the left hemisphere is primarily logical thinking, language ability and mathematical functioning.

For hermeneutics lives or dies by its ability to take history and language seriously, to give the other (whether person, event or text) our attention as other, not as a projection of our present fears, hopes and desires.

Several different approaches are currently being used to explore the linguistic abilities of primates, two of which will be briefly described.8 Premack's work, because it involves a language board, has facilitated the understanding of the abilities of chimps to grasp abstractions and logical relations, whereas Patterson's work uses Ameslan and has been especially fruitful in exploring creative language use.

Also, most of the studies of the linguistic abilities of apes emphasize language production (though the work with Koko does include a study of her ability to comprehend spoken English).

The leading symptoms of dementia are, frankly, terrifying: loss of memory, of language, and of reasoning ability.

Her ability to sing in several languages becomes «her embodiment of an increasingly postcolonialist world.»

I must, however, quibble with his criticism of «bilingualism,» as he calls it — «an ability to speak both the language of the academy and the language of revealed truths.»

The abstractive hierarchy is both the bane and wellspring of our ability to explain any concrete reality (e.g., a musical event) using concepts, images, or language.

On the flip side of the coin, the greater your fluency in their language, the greater your ability to make sense to them.

The way we were taught language in the first few years of life limits our ability to conceptualize what other people think.