Sentences with phrase «students studying languages»

The Department for Education revealed earlier this year that the number of students studying languages at GCSE was increasing.

Nicole Calma loves Jesus, her friends and family and her life as a Ph.D. student studying language and music in the brain.

A heritage language learner is a student studying a language who has some type of proficiency level in that language or in that target culture (e.g. Spanish — a language other than English in this case).

Not exact matches

In opposition, speaking as a student of Greek and Hebrew, a participant insisted that these languages are a foundational study for all theological education, and seminary is, for her, an opportunity to gain a solid grounding in God's Word.

I have some experience with it, having studied and taught it to undergraduate students for ten years, and having practiced Buddhist meditation periodically, most meaningfully under the guidance of a Zen Buddhist master from Japan for whom I served as a language instructor for one year.

(Seeing himself as a student, too, he moved to Rome at one point, and studied Arabic culture and language there for two years.)

Such a system had serious drawbacks because the teaching materials were several centuries old, the study of Arabic — and no Chinese — was inadequate, so the students could read only a limited amount and could not speak the language, there was no general educational background for the religious courses, and the freedom allowed to the students often led them to form bad habits.

That course had an even more profound effect on me: It made me decide to devote my life to the study of East Asia, Japan in particular, and I entered the graduate program at Harvard as the only student in sociology and Far Eastern languages.

I wanted to work chronologically through literature in the Western tradition, dovetailing our literary studies with history, so that my students could see how an event like the Trojan War, for example, has shaped an entire cultural imagination and given it a language for its ideals.

Are science and philosophy truly indulged because they «provoke wonder at God's creation,» the study of music pursued «so that we can offer a sacrifice of praise,» languages taught «so that students can gain a more accurate grasp of the Word»?

All students study math and science and learn foreign languages; they all play an instrument and sing in the chorus; they all learn handwork and take movement classes and perform in the class play.

Keep in mind that even high school students and adults still benefit from foreign language study.

McCluskey said Spanish was chosen because students at Glenbard West High School in Glen Ellyn choose to study Spanish over other languages offered.

Then there are the foreign students — all those young Chinese and Koreans studying at Central St Martin's University of the Arts in King's Cross, the European students on Erasmus exchange programmes around the country (doubly bad no doubt in Mr Farage's eyes since it's an EU scheme, that also sends Britons to the Continent, where they might too pick up the habit of speaking these foreign languages), the students from the Indian sub-continent studying engineering and computer science, students from around the globe trying to acquire or improve their grasp of the English language that can be their passport to a good job wherever in the globe they come from.

Mr Julius Debrah, during an interaction with the Muslim Community at Nsawam Zongo, as part of his campaign tour of the Eastern Region said «President Mahama has agreed that from 2017, Senior High School students will study Arabic like they do in the English language.»

The senior high level school curriculum has core subjects and elective subjects of which students must take four the core subjects of English language, mathematics, integrated science (including science, agriculture and environmental studies) and social studies (economics, geography, history and government).

Ministers have been blamed for the decline in modern languages, after they removed the requirement for all GCSE students to study at least one language two years ago.

«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.

While no program yet exists to allow students to learn to program using natural language, this prototype and user studies indicate that it is possible.

The study examined test results for more than 33,000 students in grades 4 through 12 and found that student performance varied across testing formats by grade band, students» primary language, and the specific features of the computer - based system used.

I remember, back as a student starting out with two majors, biology and English language and literature, at the University of Szeged in Hungary in 1993, how keen I became to study anthropology for my master's in biology in a foreign country.

The most intense course of study, which Shenoi calls the «MacGyver Track,» imparts hardware, software, and foreign - language skills to students who intend to join the intelligence community.

The research team led by Ji - Young Choi, an assistant professor of Human Development and Family Studies, found dual - language learners (DLLs) had significant growth, eventually outperforming students who only spoke English, once DLLs gained basic English proficiency.

The new study, published recently in the journal Educational Policy, is part of an emerging body of research examining the role that language reclassification plays in a student's education.

A study in the journal Psychological Science finds that students learning a new language in a total immersion environment had reduced access to their original language.

However, previous studies have shown that lower - income students are more likely to suffer from stress in early childhood, have more limited access to educational resources, and receive less exposure to spoken language early in life.

Until, like France, Britain has a baccalaureate system, with all students studying six subjects up to the age of 19, with science students also studying a foreign language and some humanities and arts students also studying maths and some science, we will continue to have a divided and partially educated population.

Conversely, the review of student writing showed the young authors adhering more to «conventional writing practices» and a trend toward less play with genre, more mundane narratives and simpler language over the two decades studied.

The purpose of the present study, performed with doctoral students Svetlana Dachkovsky of the University of Haifa and Christina Healy of Gallaudet University, was to determine whether the facial intonation of sign language is the same for all sign languages or whether, like spoken languages, intonation takes on different characteristic patterns in each language.

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).

A team led by Prof. Fumitaka Homae studied a rarely targeted population for this subject: Japanese junior high school students learning English as a second language in a school environment.

Some studies have suggested that such introversion hinders Chinese students» ability to learn English as a second language.

Elizabeth Hufnagel of Pennsylvania State University, who has been studying how students use emotional language in writing about environmental issues, also is interested in how teachers can use the experiences students bring to the classroom.

«What we found is that the sheer amount of language, the number of adult words, was not related to brain activation or verbal skills,» said Rachel Romeo, lead author of the study and a doctoral student at a joint Harvard and MIT program.

The study showed improved language - based skills, increased brain processing, and improved brain functioning in ADHD students practicing Transcendental Meditation.

In one study in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, students who learned a new language grew more complex white matter, aka the communications network.

My name is Kayla and I'm a grad student at the University of Delaware studying to be a speech - language pathologist.

Running for nearly 20 years, English School of Canada has educated over 30,000 students from more than 50 countries.Students appreciate and are engaged with the multicultural student body they study with at our fully accredited school.Finally, the third class will illuminate how to write various academic, business, professional, and functional compositions.In addition to these practical objectives, this class will show students how to put themselves in the correct mindset to write, how to plan to write as well as how to implement editing and revision strategies.The program also teaches students the specific language skills and vocabulary needed in a health care workplace.It covers speaking, listening, and reading on a wide range of topics from technical skills to ethical concerns, from communicating with patients to discussing issues with colleagues.

Studyandgoabroad.com is the «go to» site for students, primarily in Canada, who are researching options for further studies abroad, or considering a volunteer program, learning a language, working abroad or taking an international internship.

Daily ESL: Conversation Starters for English Students — One of the best ways to improve communication skills is to become familiar with the language by reading, building vocabulary, and discussing what you study in daily...

Then we watched selective campuses do away with some of their own long - standing prerequisites, such as the expectation that entering students would have studied and become reasonably proficient in at least one foreign language.

Students can read an age - appropriate short story or magazine article in a second language — preferably the language that they are studying at school — to understand diversity in languages.

In addition to core studies in English, math, science, history, languages, and the fine arts, students take a required sequence in religion and philosophy: 6th - grade students study the Apostles» Creed and the saints; in the 7th grade, they focus on the Church and the Ten Commandments; 8th graders conduct an overview of the Bible and the Sacraments; 9th - grade students study the Old Testament, the Apologetics, and C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity; the 10th - grade focus is the New Testament and Church history; 11th grade introduces metaphysics and ethics; and the 12th - grade course features the philosophy and social teachings of the Catholic Church.

This study of 1,159 seventh graders, using both a correlational and quasi-experimental approach, compared students participating in the Concept - Oriented Reading Instruction (CORI) program who also had traditional instruction to students in only a traditional reading / language arts program.

The study, conducted by an independent consultant, concluded that by the end of the school year, the Jumpstart students had caught up to or surpassed their peers in language, social, and adaptive skills.

The study found that OMA improved diverse students» test scores in reading, language arts, and math, as well as improving teachers» effectiveness.

A five - year quasi-experimental study on K - 12 bilingual education programs offered to language - minority students in U.S. public schools.

In this randomized controlled study on the impact of the arts on performance in traditional academic subjects, theater arts were integrated into language arts and social studies curricula for fourth - and fifth - grade students (14 experimental classrooms, 14 control classrooms).

Using lesson plans devised by the G - 8 Host Committee and the Georgia Council on Economic Education, a nonprofit organization that provides resources for teachers, students have been learning parts of the languages of the countries that are represented, studying their monetary systems, and researching facts about British...

The lessons progress through a range of tasks that engage student's interest, encourage them to: -: interact and share what they know -: develop their abilities to extract information from text and graphics -: view information critically -: check the credibility and validity of information -: develop online research skills -: use web based tools to create surveys and data visualisations The lessons cover a range of topics including: -: Advertising and how it influences us -: Body language and how to understand it -: Introverts and extroverts and how they differ -: Emotional intelligence and how it impacts on our relationships -: Facts about hair -: Happiness and what effects it -: Developing study skills -: The environment and waste caused by clothes manufacturing -: Daily habits of the world's wealthiest people -: The history of marriage and weddings Each lesson includes: -: A step by step teachers guide with advice and answer key -: Worksheets to print for students