Sentences with phrase «of meaningful language»

Encouragement of meaningful language use by students rather than correctness of surface forms.

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But that language doesn't account for the women who want to open up their careers, to better integrate their personal and professional identities, to find work that engages them without cannibalizing the other elements of a rich, meaningful life.

There are extremely powerful tools that can help knowledge workers find insightful perspectives and answer a whole host of questions they might have about their area of business using natural language, just like using a search engine, but far more meaningful.

In regard to the nature of theological language, it would mean avoiding a position which limited meaningful or nonmythological theological statements to assertions about God's activity which apply universally.

The Christian is being challenged to show that when he uses religious language, and in particular, when he uses the word «God», he is speaking in a meaningful way, and is not simply repeating an archaic form of words which belonged to the old world, and which is no more relevant to the new world than goblins and fairies.

Second, is a belief in God as the proper referent of that religious experience and language meaningful and true?

Moreover, if a Zennist were to persist in his denial and to assert that Nirvana is Samsara and Samsara is Nirvana — or that there is no difference whatsoever between the sacred and the profane — we would be forced to respond that his language is only meaningful in the context of the complete dissolution of the profane consciousness.

This involves some kind of empirical grounding for religious assertions if the language of faith is to be meaningful Ramsey makes three important points:

The electronic age with its offering of a wide variety of ways to present the human voice has commanded new attention to oral language.1 Perhaps the ascendancy of science and the domination of the scientific method has created such a restricted view of language that a reaction in favor of more dimensions to language is to be taken simply as clear testimony to a general degeneration of meaningful discourse, a degeneration in which the church figures prominently.

Hence, as part of the justification for claiming that all thought and language is meaningful only within a specified context, they make assertions that claim, at least implicitly, to correspond to the universal situation.

But it might not be idle or grotesque to suggest that there is a Buddhist ground for Whitehead's language about God, which is to say a religious ground which is far more meaningful in terms of the symbolic language of Buddhism than it is in that of any other religious tradition, including Christianity.

A complete meditation on the word, on the claim of the word by being, and hence a complete ontology of language is essential here if the expression «word of God» is to be meaningful or, in Bultmann's terms, if this statement is to have a nonmythological signification.

Analytic philosophy typically assumes that religious language is meaningful only if it makes universally valid statements about matters of fact in the form of propositions.

Assume for the moment that there is no genuine doctrine of God in Whitehead, or none that is meaningful within a Western philosophical or Christian theological context; then is it not possible that Whitehead's language about God is fulfilling an intention which is wholly distinct from our traditional and established speech about God?

The advent of secularization has meant that the traditional religious language of the church has now become a specialist language which to many in the secular world is not meaningful, and indeed even non-sense.

They are able to do this in a meaningful way, because they are concerned with the view of the secular world as modified by the latest scientific insights, and they speak religiously without being limited to traditional forms of language.

Deconstruction, Christopher Norris writes in Deconstruction: Theory and Practice, «suspends the persuasive (or meaningful) force of language in the interests of a purified logic of figures.»

This will involve the abandonment of conventional religious language which has ceased to be meaningful even to the preacher.

You get some that just do not have a club about the English language, throwing what they feel are meaningful words into their tweets and making themselves look a whole new level of stupid.

Here is a collection of short unique names for baby girls which are meaningful in multiple ancient languages like Latin, Hebrew, Sanskrit, Greek, Persian etc..

«Lexigrams were learned, as human language is, during meaningful social interactions, not from behavioral training,» said the study's lead author, Kristen Gillespie - Lynch, an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the City University of New York and a former UCLA graduate student in Greenfield's laboratory.

But beyond the meaningful content of language, a wealth of unique insights into an author's mind are hidden in the style of a text — in such elements as how often certain words and word categories are used, regardless of context.

People deprived of language before puberty (due to isolation or abuse, for instance) might later learn a limited supply of words, but they never develop the ability to make meaningful sentences.

On the first day of the Copenhagen climate conference, 56 newspapers publishing in 20 languages in 45 countries publish an unprecedented joint editorial calling for meaningful action to face the threat posed by climate change.

He was a philosopher of language who used linguistic analysis to distinguish those propositions that were meaningful from those that had no justifiable connection to the existing world.

For humans to be able to extract meaningful information from the troves of data being collected by the «smart» machines with which we interact — such as mobile phones — computers need to be able process language like humans.

Yet he believes that certain aspects of our minds may remain inviolable because our most meaningful thoughts and memories are written in a code, or language, that is unique to each of us.

I found what I wanted: a meaningful career that lets me make use of both my interest and education in science and my love for the German and English languages, and that at the same time allows me to be with my kids almost as much as I want to be.

Humans understand language through a variety of ways for example this might be through looking up it in a dictionary, or by associating it with words in the same sentence in a meaningful way.

Additional longitudinal analysis of the language environment data revealed no differences between the NICU and newborn nursery groups for percent distant speech at 44 weeks (17.4 % vs 14.7 %; P =.23) and 7 months (24.1 % vs 25.9 %; P =.56) and percent meaningful speech at 44 weeks (15.8 % vs 15.2 %; P =.77) and 7 months (13.8 % and 13.7 %; P =.94), respectively.

We think this research finding suggests, instead of talking at or to your child, you really need to talk with your child to have meaningful brain development and language development.»

What's more, when you join us, we offer a choice of an English or a French speaking service, in order to ensure we are creating truly meaningful connections in the language of your choice.

I give women feedback on the art of connection and how to understand and decipher body language so they can overcome those first date nerves and create meaningful relationships.»

Emotions are expressed through a common language of key strokes:), rather than through more meaningful nuances of voice fluctuation and other verbal clues.

Despite the numerous offshoots, Hubert says there's a common thread running through all of these activities — the use of meaningful communication activities to develop literacy and language skills.

Honor Home Languages: English language learners can feel pressured to master English fast, with class time spent correcting errors instead of using language in meaningful ways.

Whether it's a matter of creating a course that must be translated into one language or several more, translation is approached strategically, and from various viewpoints, to create a wholesomely translated version of the original; and somewhere along the way, the nuances of various cultures and traditions must be taken into consideration to make the translated text, «meaningful».

But the Qudwa Forum also expected teachers to be passionate and compassionate; to encourage students» engagement and responsibility; to respond effectively to students of different needs, backgrounds and languages; to provide continual assessments of students and meaningful feedback; to promote collaborative learning, tolerance and social cohesion; and to ensure that students feel valued and included.

I have delivered this lesson several times and it is great fun and encourages meaningful use of subject specific language.

Keiffer, who won the Spencer Dissertation Fellowship last year, also received an 2010 Exemplary Dissertation Award for his dissertation, The Development of Morphological Awareness and Vocabulary Knowledge in Adolescent Language Minority Learners and Their Classmates, which examines two specific English skills considered to be important in LM learners» language development during early adolescence - morphological awareness (i.e., understanding of complex words as combinations of meaningful units) and vocabulary knowledge (i.e., knowledge of word meanings).

The «meaningful» part of constructionism is not just touchy - feely new age language.

A selection of 12 key targets with over 60 related actions to help English language learners set their own meaningful SMART targets.

Denied At the Door: Language Barriers Block Immigrant Parents from School Involvement This report addresses the lack of meaningful access afforded to parents with limited English proficiency to their children's schools and the school system due to language differences.

Academic language, on the other hand, refers to the whole package of how words are put together to create meaningful cognitively complex messages.

In order to address this area of critical need, we need to provide students with meaningful access to where academic language is found.

Increased exposure to literature that is rich in academic vocabulary, like the book noted above, can support students by providing contextually meaningful repeated exposure to the type of academic language that they will eventually find embedded throughout informational texts.

Focused on building academic proficiency in English and personalization, Meaningful Student Involvement encourages schools not to set arbitrary, one - size - fits - all timelines that do not take into account the learning needs of individual English language learners.

In addition, we used district news publications and websites as vehicles to promote the common language of meaningful assessments and their direct relationship to improved teaching and learning.

Even if that were true, it is better to cover half the content and to have a closer community of families emerge from the meeting than to simply make sure that the information has been transmitted clearly in the languages present, regardless of how meaningful it is to the participants.

Students can also co-facilitate learning opportunities for adults focused on the critical study of power, language, culture, and history as they are related to Meaningful Student Involvement, ultimately and appropriately teaching teachers to value that their experiences and contributions to education.