Sentences with phrase «of language experiences»

Due to the diversity of language experiences in the class, many students were not able to take on the «expert» role in either English or Spanish, but were really learners in both languages.

To address the achievement gap, principals need to be aware of the importance of language experiences in early learning classrooms.

But the impact of language experience on brain activity is not well understood, Luk says.

When there is commitment, support, and solid grounding in the premises and practices of language experience, it works.

185 Patricia K. Kuhl, S. Kirtani, T. Deguchi, A. Hayashi, E. B. Stevens, C. D. Dugger, and P. Iverson, «Effects of language experience on speech perception: American and Japanese infants» perception of / ra / and / la /,» Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 102:3135 (1997).

Not exact matches

At Egon Zehnder, we have learned in much of our work with many of the leading Chinese tech giants and startup unicorns what type of talent is likely to thrive in China, which prioritizes the more nuanced «soft» skills of adaptability, flexibility, and potential rather than simply the «hard» skills of language fluency and past work experiences.

Just like before, successful immigrants must score 67 points out of a possible 100, but language fluency and age now count for more, while points for work experience have been reduced.

«We got that language so much that it was clear to us that, as young, black male entrepreneurs, the experience of building a company would be very different,» echoes Quarles.

«These changes will reflect the relative value Canadian employers place on foreign work experience, and redirect points to language and age factors, which are better indicators of success in the Canadian labour market.»

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.

Anyone who aspires to play competitively in the retail space these days needs to be able to talk the language of omnichannel merchandising — the notion that the various manifestations of a company's online or mobile presence can be pressed into service to create a more engaging, or at least tolerable, in - store experience.

«Body language is 70 percent of being an effective communicator, how you say it is 23 percent and content is only 7 percent,» he estimates, offering a breakdown based on his own personal experiences.

Let's face it, it's not always easy to stay on top of things when you're catching flights, experiencing tech issues and dealing with language barriers.

You may experience a bit of a learning curve at first, since texting involves becoming familiar with a whole new truncated language, but it is easy to pick up.

Watching yourself on video can be a cringeworthy experience, but awareness of your body language, posture, and mannerisms improves your confidence.

Bar graphs represent skills and languages; a Google Analytics - style map shows his educational background, and his «Experience» section allows potential employers to click on the various positions to get more information about each of his roles.

«You can't simply just set up shop at the border and say, «Here's something I want to do,» says Castelli, an experienced business executive who speaks four different languages and has spent 12 years doing international business development for a number of firms, including Alcan.

But I was just amazed by how everyone, young and old wanted to be involved... and was so deeply enriched and touched by the experience and the laughter and the love I experienced from the people I met and how women would in particular open their hearts to me and tell me the stories of where they've come from, particularly because I have the language and was coming there as a woman and just how touched they were that I was there as a woman from England who's learned the language and who's an artist and running this project and come all the way to see them so they didn't feel forgotten I think that was pretty much what they felt... that their stories were being heard so they don't feel forgotten knowing the tents would be around the world.

Several factors contribute in selecting the pilot destined to the Hog, including the flight experience, the achieved qualifications and currencies and, of course, the fluency with the English language (as no specific training is foreseen to improve with it before leaving for the U.S.).

A wife and mother of two herself, Epperson knows a thing or two about the pitfalls of financial planning and doses her advice with plenty of humorous anecdotes, hard - earned experience, and down - to - earth language.

A large component of MSCI's decisions is investors» experience of market accessibility, rather than merely an abstract analysis of regulatory language.

It often takes time for economic immigrants to find proper jobs because of a lack of recognition of foreign credentials, real or perceived language or cultural competency issues, and / or the lack of Canadian work experience.

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

«But now more players, who had been held back from getting the full experience of the game because of language barriers, will be able to access more localized content and surprises after it is launched domestically.»

There is no doubt that integrating other cultures, foreign languages and different ways of doing business into our economy is not easy, but companies should be seeking ways to harness newcomers» former business experience in real terms.

It should be one of our main concerns to know what God intends when the Bible uses this language, so that by God's grace we may experience it and help others do the same.

So while I agree with her that political life may help renew faith in human dignity and so make human rights believable, the politics of human rights is conducted through liberal language that is extremely partial, that leaves out at least half of the human experience.

If you believe that Christian doctrine is essentially an attempt to capture dimensions of human experience that defy precise expression in language because of personal and cultural limitations, then the truth about God, the human condition, salvation, and the like can never be adequately posited once and for all; on the contrary, the church must express ever and anew its experience of the divine as mediated through Jesus Christ.

If we take Father Schall's pointed jest and explore it in relation to Walker Percy's own long journey, we see the heart of Percy's concern, a concern central to his fascination with the mystery of sign, of language, in relation to the reality we experience either by a deportment through ordinate sentiment to reality or a deportment of sentimentality, that is, a manner divorced from reality.

We must first be open to the word, to the presence of language in dialogue, poetry, and experience.

In any case, I can step away from the complex and obscure maze of language and external phenomena to find simplicity, clarity, immediacy, and profundity in an inner intuition of my own experience as subject.

One of the most persistent mistakes made by critics of the crop of celibate gay Christian writers that came together around the blog Spiritual Friendship is the assumption that when we use any language that they don't like (most commonly, though not limited to, the word «gay») to describe our experiences, we are using that language to make ontological claims.

If I am presented with claims that the variety of uses of «experience» does not and could not reveal any normative essence of experience, I can counter that I have a prelinguistic intuition of the essence of my own experience — an intuition against which the adequacy or confusion of language can be authoritatively measured.

If inclusive language and the ordained ministry of women can help change our image and experience of God to include the God who loves us like a mother holding her baby to her breast, that may be the Great Awakening in our time.

Indeed, in a given language there may be no single term with just the variety of senses characteristic of the English word «experience».

The goal of the Christian life is to be found in the experience of «perfect love,» and the eschatological hope is expressed in similar language.

The whole church needs help in avoiding the depersonalization of God as we seek to overcome the limitations imposed on our Christian experience by male - oriented language.

The awareness of the particularity, indeed the precious particularity, of our language, «even the language of «God» and «salvation,» made some unwilling to use» it to blanket the religious lives and experiences of people of other faiths.

In Whitehead's language the question is whether an experience can include unmediated prehensions of noncontiguous events.

The language as a whole is different, and although, through the distinct languages, it is sometimes possible to discern common elements of experience that are being named, this can not be taken for granted.

The Church as a body has centuries of experience of reading the Word, of immersing itself in the language of God.

Once God is regarded as an actual entity, the use of personalistic language follows naturally, for our basic clue to the nature of an actual entity is given in our own immediate human experience.

Since language is a fundamental mode of interpersonal relating, it follows that what people become is dependent upon their language experiences.

This is remarkably personalistic language, and it is interesting to note that it all occurs in the more philosophical part of the book rather than where he is surveying the evidence of religious experience.

Eliot, our latest great Christian poet, avoids Christian language for the most part, seeking, as in the Four Quartets, for another language as the objective correlative of his religious experience.

Such a child is also likely to experience serious problems of social and emotional adjustment, for he senses that in his language deficiency the very foundations for his participation in the life of relation — and hence for having any life worth living — are threatened.

«Each language has a palette with a finite amount of colors, which have evolved from the cultural memories and common experience of its users.

In the theater, because of the unities of time, place, character and language, the theatergoer experiences a catharsis.

The traditional distrust of simple statement, and of language as applied to the religious vision, in the new theology ceases to be an inoperative or inconsistently employed formal concession, and becomes a systematic tracing of the relativity of concepts to each other and to experience as a whole.

He will begin with ordinary language, or the findings of science, or widespread experience of mankind, rather than with the special convictions of his community.