Sentences with phrase «of language comprehension»

Probably the most extensive evaluation of program effects on very young children was undertaken in Canada's Self - Sufficiency Project (SSP), the voluntary earnings supplement program that had large initial effects on full - time employment and income.5 Despite concerns that increases in full - time work would reduce parents» time with their young children, no effects on children were found either at the 36 - month follow - up point, when a test of language comprehension was administered to the children who would then have been three to five years of age, or at the 54 - month follow - up point, when parents were asked about their children's school performance.

The study data collection includes direct assessments of language comprehension and non-verbal reasoning from the age of three years, and an activity on felt security from the age of seven years.

They may be sent to a provincial medium - security prison and placed with the general criminal population, regardless of their language comprehension, the merits of their claim, or their psychological condition

These claimants could be sent to a provincial medium security prison and placed with the general criminal population regardless of their language comprehension, the merits of their claim or their psychological condition.

Effective use of school time is especially important in all areas of learning connected with the advancement of language comprehension, which is inherently a slow process.

Background knowledge is the main driver of language comprehension, whether written or spoken.

Patient N, who had been in a vegetative state for three years following a motor vehicle accident, showed no signs of language comprehension and was constantly screaming.

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But it is now clear that the right hemisphere plays a significant role in language processing as well, and that language comprehension and production involve many regions of the brain.

For these reasons, Louis Herman's work with bottlenosed dolphins has focussed exclusively on language comprehension, particularly comprehension of the imperative sentence.

A human being (a child, for instance) is first shown a visible picture of a physical object and then the audible or written symbolic language component is linked to it to give comprehension.

With my belief that» language is limited» since I have many many friends who have english as a second language, and my own personal comprehension of the language and its meanings is limited based on my personal history... thank you for being thoroughly clear in your use of words.

God must have been pretty damn illiterate and in need of some basic grammar and language comprehension classes, which is strange for an all powerful being.

The flaw is evident in the assumption of comprehension — always a concern, particularly in the food industry where English may be a second language for many employees.

Is just one of the many examples of the great comprehension of the English language you will come away with if you attend the Michigan Honors College.

But preliminary results already show powerful gap - closing effects for Educare students: If disadvantaged children enter Educare before their first birthday, they usually are, by the first day of kindergarten, essentially caught up with the national average on tests of basic knowledge and language comprehension, as well as on measures of noncognitive factors like attachment, initiative, and self - control.

«Following multistep directions is an important skill that requires paying attention to language, comprehension of the direction, working memory — to «store» the direction — problem - solving if the command is forgotten or needs to be altered and the actual execution of the direction,» says Jennifer L. Maietta, a pediatric speech - language pathologist at MassGeneral Hospital for Children.

This is essentially part of advanced language development which gives children a better comprehension and insight into their concrete environment.

A combination of simple words, inflection, and body language while communicating, improving comprehension, and memory games are...

This strengthens the memory of the young child and also the child's ability to put complex language in context — setting up a beginning of advanced comprehension skills.

The DSM - V defines is as having «persistent difficulties in the acquisition and use of language... due to deficits in comprehension or production.»

Hence, most of them struggle with written language as well as with text reading and comprehension.

A postmortem analysis of human brain tissue, for example, conducted by Witelson and her colleagues at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster, revealed that women's neurons were 11 percent denser than men's in the prefrontal cortex and in a region of the temporal cortex that is involved with language processing, comprehension, and memory.

Children from higher socioeconomic backgrounds had thicker cortex in a part of the brain known as Broca's area, which is necessary for language production and comprehension.

In addition, bilingual students who displayed a growth in the components of working memory also showed growth in language and reading comprehension.

Misdiagnosis commonly happens when students start learning to read in the first and second grades, and as English - language learners continue through the grade levels, the demand for the application of such executive control processes such as working memory and language increases as reading comprehension requirements become more complex.

By the time they reach third grade, English - language learners may begin to struggle with a more challenging reading curriculum, and because of this, their school may examine them more closely for comprehension challenges and may eventually refer them to the school's special education team for a learning disability diagnosis in their second language without fully assessing them in their native language.

Older test takers are equally capable of other tasks that do not depend on speed, such as language comprehension and processing.

Deficits in language comprehension, working memory, decision making, or executive function would have prevented successful completion of the imagery tasks.

There are genes that, when mutated, cause disorders of language, speech and comprehension, and statistical analyses of our genomes show that these genes were targets of Darwinian natural selection.

Our data suggests that restoration of hearing ability in profoundly deaf children may permit the latent development of spoken language comprehension.

Researchers at Harvard and the University of California, San Diego have discovered that a small region of the brain that has been predominantly associated with language production, is also responsible for language comprehension — blurring the lines on what has been a fundamental concept in psychology.

The results showed heightened connectivity in the left temporal cortex, an area of the brain associated with language comprehension, as well as in the brain's central sulcus, which is associated with sensations and movement.

«Comprehension of words relies on areas of the brain associated with motor control as well as «classic» language centers, researchers report.»

But he lived in Spain for two years before shooting Everybody Knows and gained a comprehension of the language as well as the culture in which Cruz and Bardem grew up.

One vital bundle is the arcuate fasciculus, which connects the back of the reading network (mapping language sounds onto their written counterparts) to the frontal regions (reading fluency and comprehension).

A 1942 study in Iowa discovered that girls were superior to boys on tests of reading comprehension, vocabulary, and basic language skills.

Setting aside the philosophical issues surrounding what is intelligence, most real - life AI algorithms are actually doing something much simpler — to mimic some aspects of human - like behaviours, such as identifying objects inside an image, learning, natural language comprehension, and social interactions.

With increased instruction in academic language, and increased attention to understanding of morphology and connectives, Lesaux hopes to close the gap between students» reading skills and their comprehension.

As a result, English language learners may score in the 80th percentile on a word reading test, but in just the 19th percentile on a test of reading comprehension.

The second version followed a the same structure, but placed a greater emphasis on language comprehension training and the understanding of words, and was fund to improve progress by 4 months.

Students who have a developed knowledge of Spanish can use cognates (words with similar spelling and meanings in both languages) to help their reading comprehension in both languages.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

In this article, we will take a look at how technology can be used to teach one of the fundamental pillars of language learning — reading comprehension.

Perhaps most important was that while students were deeply engaged in the content and invested in creating the final product, they were also developing historical thinking skills, exploring Europe's history through a critical lens, applying their reading comprehension skills to difficult non-fiction and historical fiction, interpreting primary sources, writing in a number of genres, and developing their oral language abilities.

Yet, even when these kinds of books ensure comprehension, they «kill» the style of the original work, as well as the richness and versatility of the language.

It never occurred to them that there was supposed to be a war between disciples of the phonics approach to reading instruction and supporters of whole language, who promoted learning to read by focusing on good literature and comprehension but neglected phonetics.

SL.1 a / L.8.4 a Skills to be addressed during the Lesson - Social and Cognitive Educational Tools and Resources - Connectives, Adjectives, Adverbs, Verbs Teachers can use this presentation to give a complete knowledge and understanding of PEE Technique for Language Analysis to the learners, thereby helping them to enhance their reading, comprehension, and language skills.

Gillim, a former teacher and education media professional, developed the character and series with an explicit purpose to enrich young audiences» vocabulary, close the gap for those who don't grow up in language - rich environments, instill a love of language, and foster better reading comprehension.

This item includes: 4 page story in French 8 comprehension questions - English and French versions answer key infographic about the language of flowers resources to videos about Valentine's day and the language of flowers

In addition to her research based on large - scale testing data, Martiniello interviewed English - language learners using think - aloud protocols to gauge children's interpretation and comprehension of the MCAS math items.