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).
AND — All ELL students (regardless
of their language ability) must take the math and science portions of the CMT / CAPT in English.
The group say lack
of language ability loses the UK an estimated 3.5 per cent of economic performance.
Film's potential in language learning, then, has implications for students
of all language ability levels.
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.
Summer - born children were perceived by teachers to have lower levels
of language ability and have more instances of behaviour problems.
Or any solid comparison
of language abilities in both regions?
Children arrive at school with a wide range
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).
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.