Sentences with phrase «of speaking a second language»

Given the general cognitive benefits of speaking a second language, a decline in language teaching will likely mean a decline in education attainment across the board.

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This rising tide of connectedness in the world suddenly means that if you're an English - language publisher, there are hundreds of millions of people around the world where people speak English as a second language.

Researchers found that young adults proficient in two languages performed better on attention tests and had better concentration than those who spoke only one language, irrespective of whether they had learned that second language during infancy, childhood or their teen years.

They originally differed also in language, since the first spoke Spanish or Ladino (a fifteenth - century Spanish), the second German, and the third Yiddish (an alloy of Hebrew and German).

The tasks of infancy are first to learn the differentiation of objects; second to master spoken language; and third, to be able to use that language for a classified and enlarged enjoyment of objects (see, AE 31).

Second: to say that this particular book is true is to say that we can trust it, trust it as a guide to faith and life which provides not only specific claims about God's faithfulness and how we ought to live our lives in response to it, but also a way of understanding the whole world and a language in which to speak about that world.

The second weakness is that the book does not sufficiently emphasise that the mystical tradition of Christianity speaks a common language which crosses denominations and faiths.

Though Robert Bellah and his coauthors found that the «first language» of Americans is the discourse of individualism, they also heard Americans across the country speaking communitarian «second languages,» languages of «tradition and commitment in communities of memory.»

«Yes, the baby boomer may have had a career, two careers, has raised a family, but millenials are coming from these colleges where almost all of them have some overseas studies, almost all of them have been on some kind of volunteer mission; they speak a second language.

I know plenty of folks that speak English as a second language, and they do a great job, in part because they have to (living in the US or UK), but practically everyone I met in the Netherlands was brilliant.

Some of the Chinese I've known, who learned English as a second language, speak English pretty well, but can make mistakes on conjugation; I'm not sure I've noticed issues with pronouns.

Maybe I'm totally wrong, I've never tried to speak fluently in a second language but I'd think it takes nothing but tons of tons of practice.

Researchers have found that a baby learns to be bilingual through both the quantity and quality of the second language being spoken around them.

If your child spends a lot of time with his best buddy, whose family speaks both Spanish and English, your child may become just as comfortable identifying favorite foods or offering simple greetings in a second language as he does in his native English.

The largest urban health systems, which serve as safety nets for large patient populations with lower socioeconomic status and greater likelihood to speak English as a second language, do worse on government patient satisfaction scores than smaller, non-urban hospitals likely to serve white customers with higher education levels, according to a new study by Mount Sinai researchers published this month in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.

On average they gazed a couple of seconds longer at that surprising situation of person 2 using an inconsistent language than they did at the expected case of person 1 speaking like person 3.

Within months of living in a foreign country, a young child may speak a second language like a native speaker.

Speakers of Eskimo - Aleut languages, found in the Aleutian Islands and Greenland, inherit almost half their genes from the second wave, while the Na - Dene - speaking Chipewyan in central Canada inherit around a tenth of their genes from a third wave — although all groups can claim to have «first American» DNA (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature11258).

Extrovert Chinese students learning English as a second language are likely to perform better in speaking and reading, but less proficient in listening than their introvert counterparts, according to a study published in Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (JSSH).

«About one sixth of all people in the U.S. birthplace of Scientific American speak Spanish as a first or second language, and globally, it is spoken by more than 500 million,» says Scientific American editor in chief Mariette DiChristina.

For individuals who speak English as a second language, not understanding some of the words on a questionnaire or not understanding the instructions may lead to a failed test even if there is no problem with the person's mind.

Even in France, which has only one official language and is immensely proud of its linguistic heritage, most people speak a second language.

Findings published in Annals of Neurology, a journal of the American Neurological Association and Child Neurology Society, show that individuals who speak two or more languages, even those who acquired the second language in adulthood, may slow down cognitive decline from aging.

But those languages didn't come out on top in an analysis of dating behavior in the US that found the ability to speak a second language other than English appears to make people vastly more attractive to the opposite sex — and also that your second tongue of choice matters.

Fortunately, such a conversation should not be all that difficult as a large percentage of the population speaks fluent English as a second language.

The ability to speak a second language isn't the only thing that distinguishes bilingual people from their monolingual counterparts — their brains work Chief Architect and Vice President of Innovation, Phill Lawson - Shanks, to Present at The 6th Annual Provider Forum on Financing & Investing in Data Centers

1925 DUNHILL MADE IN ENGLAND LONDON on one side INNER TUBE English is a second language to one in 13: More than 100 dialects are spoken by large numbers of people in the UK.

Filmed entirely in Spanish despite Farhadi being unable to speak the language, Everybody Knows is only the second Spanish language film ever to open the festival, following in the footsteps of Pedro Almodóvar's Bad Education all the way back in 2004.

According to Jim Cummins, professor emeritus at the University of Toronto, children's levels of performance in a second language depend on their ability to speak their native tongue.

Here are lots of different fun teaching resources for students who are learning to speak English as a second language, or for students who want to revise and improve their understanding of English.

All of my students speak and are learning English as a second language, and for this reason, their class schedules ensure that they focus extra attention on learning English.

Those who speak English as a second language can also take advantage of subtitles to absorb the eLearning content, especially if you take the time to translate your eLearning course into the most commonly used languages.

A high percentage of both students and teachers speak English as their second language.

The school has diversity of its own to draw on: Including those in the Bilingual Orientation Center, 27 percent of students at Stanford speak English as a second language, 28 percent qualify for free or reduced - cost lunch, and fewer than half the students are white.

The second is being able to communicate effectively — often educators don't feel comfortable speaking the language of design and vice versa.

Many of these young people come with low levels of Spanish and some speak indigenous languages, where Spanish is their second language.

At the John F. Kennedy Magnet School in Port Chester, New York, a school with a high ratio of students who speak English as a second language, bilingual workshops were offered to parents on the first day of school.

About 75 percent of Ferraro's students receive free or reduced - price lunches, and about one - third speak English as a second language.

Although Berkeley's student assignment plan allows parents to rank - order their first - choice, second - choice, and third - choice schools, it considers a number of factors in the actual assignment process, including the parent's level of education, income, and primary language spoken at home.

More than 11 million school - age children speak a language other than English at home, and Texas enrolls the second largest population of K - 12 English language learners.

English - language speakers benefit from «extensive exposure to Spanish, accelerating their absorption and usage of the language to achieve early Spanish literacy; a highly academic curriculum, taught in a second language; the ability to transfer Spanish reading and writing skills to English language reading and writing after the second grade; the confidence to speak Spanish, resulting from the self - esteem and pride they gain because they are bilingual.»

Speaking time, for instance, is especially brief: ELL students spend, on average, fewer than 90 seconds per day in classroom talk.1 Acknowledging that some of their ELLs were not receiving necessary language practice during school hours, Lennox officials viewed after - school time as an opportunity to help some of their struggling students.

The school serves a disadvantaged community where there are above average numbers of pupils with special educational needs and who speak English as a second language, and many experience challenging circumstances at home.

Standards of Welsh second language in many English - medium schools are improving, but most pupils lack confidence when speaking Welsh.

However, these women, who are more likely to be people of color or to speak a second language, or both, are generally not as well educated as lead teachers and are usually paid even less.

Currently, 50 percent of our students speak English as a second language, 62 percent receive free and / or reduced lunch, and 20 percent have individual education plans.

Meanwhile, the nation's second - largest school district — where students speak 94 languages — is closing in on meeting its goals for improving test scores for English learners and getting more of them to graduation.

Between 1984 and 2004, the percentage of the student population speaking English as a second language increased from 5 percent to 60 percent; the percentage of students receiving free or reduced - price lunch soared to 91 percent; and the once - stable neighborhood around the school turned into a community with a 60 percent mobility rate for families with school - age children.

You could be comparing a fully bilingual child, daughter of a German banker, with somebody who has just come from the Czech Republic with a Roma background, or a second or third generation child where another language is spoken in the house.»

The Milner School, where more than 40 percent of its students go home to households that don't use English as their primary language, will be turned over to a charter school company that has no non-English speaking students and absolutely no history, what so ever, in running English as a Second Language or English Language Learner programs.