Sentences with phrase «quality of the second language»

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

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It also feels like Wadlow is trying too hard to be funny and irreverent with all the cutesy references and potty language (and don't get me started on the vomit scene), but while «Kick - Ass 2» may not live up to the quality of its predecessor, the characters are so entertaining and uniquely charming in their own way that they definitely make Millar's madcap universe worth revisiting a second time.

Although many states now staff their schools with teachers prepared through alternative certification routes, there is a growing concern about the quality and relevance of the programs to produce excellent teachers, especially teachers to serve the teaching fields with the most needs — math, science, special education and English as a second language and bilingual education.

While it is admirable for school districts to promote bilingualism, it is truly a second - tier purpose that mainly does a disservice to the majority minority group in San Jose — the Hispanics at the expense of quality language instruction for numerous other second language groups.

Second and foreign language education; systematic integration of language and content; language and literacy skills development in school content areas; classroom discourse analysis; quality teacher education for diverse student populations; professional development for teachers working with ESL / EFL students; faculty development in international settings.

Under ESSA, states must hold schools accountable for student performance in English language arts, or ELA, and mathematics; a second academic indicator, such as growth in ELA and mathematics; progress in achieving English language proficiency; high school graduation rates, if applicable; and at least one measure of school quality or student success.

According to the district's draft of the policy, «equity is attained when there is sufficient evidence that each student has a high - quality education experience, and outcomes are not predicted by race, gender, socioeconomic status, [individualized education program] status, or learning English as a second language.»

The second intervention was part of Quality English and Science Teaching (QuEST), a CREATE project designed to develop the science knowledge and academic language of English language learners and their English - proficient classmates in the middle grades.

This language of racing to address a «social emergency» is common rhetoric in education reform, since children do not get a second chance to receive a quality education.

Another vital intersection was explored in Ascott's use of the thesaurus in 1963 [1], which drew an explicit parallel between the taxonomic qualities of verbal and visual languages - a concept would be taken up in Joseph Kosuth's Second Investigation, Proposition 1 (1968) and Mel Ramsden's Elements of an Incomplete Map (1968).