Sentences with phrase «primary language of instruction»

Graduation from a recognized university degree program at an accredited university, college or technical institute at which English is the primary language of instruction.

Graduation from a recognized university degree program at an accredited university, college of technical institute at which English is the primary language of instruction.

What makes EJE unique is its use of the 90 - 10 dual language program model (Spanish - English) in which Spanish is used as the primary language of instruction in the elementary years.

Only one - quarter of these is German, and the primary language of instruction and communication on campus is English.

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As more than 5,000 educators gathered in Albuquerque, N.M., last month for the annual conference of the National Association for Bilingual Education, the prospects for their primary cause — instruction in a child's native language — looked as bright as they have at any time in recent years.

This week: Michael Kirst's impact on California education, trouble - free Smarter Balanced assessments in math and English language arts, and the primary election for governor and state superintendent of public instruction heating up.

Even as the focus on foreign - language instruction up north and Down Under has waned recently in the wake of renewed attention to reading, mathematics, and science instruction, countries outside the United States where English is the primary language have more than a decade's head start in their language skills and public attitudes on the importance of language learning.

Dual Language Learners: Effective Instruction in Early Childhood — article, by Claude Goldenberg, Judy Hicks and Ira Lit that appeared in the American Federation of Teachers» journal, summarizing research on effective early education for DLLs including the use of the children's primary language where possible, the adoption of effective practices for building English language skills and the involvement of families in supporting children's learning

Our curriculum is designed to provide our students with a deep understanding of effective instruction and assessment of young students whose primary language is a language other than English and who are in the process of acquiring the language, literacy, and content - area skills necessary to participate in and benefit from instruction in English.

The primary objectives of MELAF were to develop state goals and objectives in English language arts that would provide the basis for a curriculum framework that (1) integrated curriculum, instruction, and assessment; (2) promoted systemic change; and (3) had an impact on schools, classrooms, individual teachers and students.

One of the major focuses for the recent event was the emphasis on government spending on education, which translates into higher literacy rates, a better level of English - language instruction which will allow more readers to enjoy English pleasure reading, and a growing interaction with tablet computers thanks to spending initiatives to put more tablets in schools at even the primary levels.

Several law schools have experimented with introducing foreign and international issues into basic LRW instruction.68 Some have responded to these arguments by creating either upper - class elective seminars with a global LRW focus, 69 or by creating a specialized foreign / international section of the basic LRW course.70 Typically, this has been accomplished in a largely ad hoc fashion through the creative efforts of individual instructors, who sometimes offer a special «international» section of the basic LRW course.71 Additionally, LRW professors whose primary responsibility is to educate foreign students have naturally gravitated toward incorporating global dimensions in their problems and assignments.72 Faculty specializing in teaching legal English have observed that English is increasingly the language of choice for transnational negotiations and legal instruments, even in circumstances where the underlying transactions do not involve Anglo - American law.73 Consequently, they also emphasize a transnational approach that responds to the needs of their students.