Sentences with phrase «study of language»

This book is not a critical study of language analysis.

Although the statistical study of language is relatively young, it is clear that analyzing patterns of word use and writing style can lead to insights that would otherwise remain hidden.

Our faculty's research seeks to enhance instructional methods based on comprehensive studies of language and literacy in diverse settings.

All the variety which a comparative study of language as the organ of the inner life of a people reveals to us must be understood as the variegated manifestation of the human mind, the highest of all possible ideas.

Through interventions based upon the notions of abstraction and geometry, Gabriel Sierra presents his viewers with an anthropological study of the language of spaces and architecture.

Humboldt devoted at least three major treatises to the comparative study of language and languages, not counting his numerous studies of ancient dialects and literatures.

Part of a 2010 study of language use among couples that looked at their text messages, for example, found that when two people «sounded» more alike — in terms of the words and language structure they used in their messages — they were also more likely to still be dating three months later.

In his penetrating study of language, MIT linguist Noam Chomsky has given us a framework that is to culture what the genetic code is to life.

For support for neuroimaging studies of language - learning disabilities: $ 350,000 (over three years) to the New York University Medical Center, New York City.

Their reforms, in turn, have successfully steered most American students away from a liberal education, what Ravitch defines as «the systematic study of language and literature, science and mathematics, history, the arts and foreign languages.»

Shattuck Professor Catherine Snow is an expert on language and literacy development and the primary investigator of a 15 - year longitudinal study of language and literacy skills among low - income children.

My teaching experience made me aware that foreign languages are undervalued in the U.S. Requirements are weak, most students start study of a language late and for only a few years.

Part of a 2010 study of language use among couples that looked at couples» text messages, for example, found that when two people «sounded» more alike (in terms of the words and language structure they used in their messages) they were also more likely to still be dating three months later.

Once more, withdrawing to the small but beautiful estate of Tegel near Berlin, he turned scholar and hermit and devoted the remaining years of his life almost exclusively to the comparative study of languages.

The study of language has importance, relevancy, and the certainty of a large measure of success.

Accordingly, the study of language rightly occupies a central place in the education of the young.

From the study of languages and reflection on the meaning of language come some of our most essential insights into human nature and growth.

The time has come for us to encourage the study of languages of regions other than one's own for research.

Yet despite the impressive work of Premack and Patterson, their studies of language production by primates do not yet provide unequivocal evidence of the extent of the capacity of primates to understand the grammatical features of sentences.

The study of language comprehension has some advantages over that of production, in that it can be tested under rigid controls, lends itself to statistical evaluation, and does not depend upon manual or vocal proficiency (CSBD 132 - 3).

Humboldt states in his monograph on the dual that, though the study of language should be pursued for its own sake, it «resembles other branches of learning in not having its ultimate purpose in itself but that it conforms to the general purpose of interest in the human mind to help humanity to realize its true nature and its relation to everything visible and invisible around and above itself.»

On the whole, philosophers gave up the attempt to answer the questions of traditional philosophy and devoted themselves to the study of language.

We can begin to utilize at this point some of the educational insights derived from our study of language - games, the logically odd use of ordinary language, the models and qualifiers, the figurative use of seemingly descriptive words, the poetic - simple, and self - involving performatives.

«The study of language as an important medium of human communication, brings with it the challenges of articulating and transmitting knowledge in an ever - changing world.

«These scientific advances are very exciting,» she says, «and shed light on the past, but you are doing historical inquiry; you need to include archaeology and the study of language and texts.

However, she liked «the idea that in linguistics we approach the study of language as a science.»

His studies of language development showed that even month - old babies can perceive subtle differences in sounds, the first evidence in support of the theory that language is hardwired into the brain.

This method is already used by these researchers for clinical purposes, with stroke survivors, and it opens many new doors for the study of language perception.

He does that by combining the study of the language with a strong cultural base, says Robinson.

I don't think it is really possible to become fluent in another language, unless perhaps you live in a foreign country and make the study of its language an integral part of your life.

«No Child Left Behind established an overemphasis on reading and math and took away time from the study of languages,» says Shuhan Wang, deputy director of the National Foreign Languages Center at the University of Maryland.

The Manchester Grammar School invites sixth - form pupils from other schools to an annual talk that promotes the study of languages by young people.

This program provides candidates with a rigorous and in - depth approach to the study of language and literacy development with particular attention to the teaching and learning implications of varied cultural, linguistic, and economic contexts.

He said the government's academies and free schools programmes, as well as reforms on discipline and a push to boost the study of languages, sciences, geography and history all aimed to give parents «more genuine choice of a good school».

Another factor is «a growing trend» - particularly in state schools - to excuse pupils from the study of a language for reasons which include extra tuition in literacy and numeracy, a trend the report says is linked to «socio - economic disadvantage».

PBE is defined as an immersive learning experience that «places students in local heritage, cultures, landscapes, opportunities and experiences — using these as a foundation for the study of language arts, mathematics, social studies, science and other subjects across the curriculum.»

PBE is an immersive learning experience that «places students in local heritage, cultures, landscapes, opportunities and experiences, using these as a foundation for the study of language arts, mathematics, social studies, science and other subjects across the curriculum.»

Bilingual education was abandoned, and even the study of languages considered «foreign» was restricted.

English language arts teachers and teacher educators focus on the study of language.

Older students continue daily Spanish lessons focusing on the study of the language structure and grammar, while promoting cultural awareness through the introduction of the aspects of common life in other countries, exploring the influence of political and economic issues in society.