Not exact matches
«Sign
language has a structure, and even if you examine it at the phonological level, where you would expect it to be completely
different from
spoken language, you can
still find similarities.
This practice, diametrically opposed to that in Singapore, which outperforms the United States in reading in English in spite of the fact that nearly everyone in that city - state
speaks a
different language at home, has no chance of narrowing the gap in academic literacy with native English speakers; instead it will exacerbate it, to be followed by more civil rights pressure on our universities to lower their academic standards
still further in an attempt to achieve equal outcomes, in a vicious cycle that will continue the degradation of America's civil and academic life.
Still, the study of those
languages along with listening to people
speak from
different geological, socio - economic, and educational areas, gave me a sense for how
different everyone expresses themselves, not only from one culture to another, but also as individuals within those cultures.