Sentences with phrase «studying language at»

Also studying language at the Karlóva Université in the Czech Republic, Cadorette pursues the futility of communication.

No pupil that wants to continue studying a language at GCSE should be prevented from doing so.»

Along with studying languages at university, she's also an incredibly talented photographer.

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

In Middlesbrough, only about one in four pupils studied a language at GCSE, while in authorities such as Hammersmith and Fulham and Kensington and Chelsea «nearly every pupil is taking at least one language».

She studied languages at Oxford University, traveled in Europe and worked in London, as an editor, freelance journalist, script assessor and film critic.

Walkthru, past and present The founders of Walkthru all studied languages at the University of Helsinki, specializing in English translation or philology.

He was born and raised in St. Gallen in Switzerland (he comes from Grabs, the same small town that produced Pipilotti Rist); he studied languages at university and only took up the camera a few years ago.

Not exact matches

When he's not busy at work fixing the HR Software for a number of helpless staff members, Greg enjoys studying languages and fighting the good fight to keep bad disco dancing alive and well.

In recent years, a few fascinating studies at Harvard, Princeton and other top universities shed new light on body language and how to use it at work.

The program, which Chipotle (cmg) unveiled on Monday, is a partnership with Colorado - based Guild Education and will allow employees at the burrito chain to pursue undergraduate or graduate degrees, taking college courses, earn a GED, or study English as a second language.

But according to a new study looking at the effects of PC language on mixed gender teams and published in Administrative Science Quarterly, watching your language also appears to work — at least if you're aiming to work constructively with a diverse group.

At the federal level, the US Department of Energy's much - anticipated study on grid reliability deliberately removed language noting harm from climate change between the draft and final versions.

He studied Philosophy and Classics at Stanford and has language skills in German, Ancient Greek, and Latin.

Instruction in Islam is given in local languages at the lower levels, but for higher studies a good knowledge of Arabic is necessary and mastery of Persian and Turkish is required for any extensive research.

I was then studying the Thai language at Bangkok Union Language School.

At the time of this book's first edition (The University of Chicago Press, 1955) it represented the first comprehensive study of Buber's thought in any language, and it is still the only comprehensive study in English.

Two years of work at a university in western Canada, where I studied with Wittgensteinian defenders of «ordinary language» as well as with Trotskyites and non-Marxist socialists, provided the necessary distance in terms of both ideologies and miles.

Studies comparing different languages suggest that some languages are better than others at sensitizing us to certain kinds of experience.

The fragment, written in Coptic, a language used by Egyptian Christians, says in part, «Jesus said to them, «My wife...» Harvard Divinity School Professor Karen King announced the findings of the 1 1/2 - by 3 - inch honey - colored fragment on Tuesday in Rome at the International Association for Coptic Studies.

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

Here is the sheer miracle of it: a literature that long antedated our glorious gains in science and the immense scope of modern knowledge, which moves in the quiet atmosphere of the ancient countryside, with camels and flocks and roadside wells and the joyous shout of the peasant at vintage or in harvest — this literature, after all that has intervened, is still our great literature, published abroad as no other in the total of man's writing, translated into the world's great languages and many minor ones, and cherished and loved and studied so earnestly as to set it in a class apart.

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.

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.

At the same time the questioning of the language and indeed of the reality of God was central to the study of religious philosophy in most British universities.

It would seem at first glance that homileticians and practitioners of performance studies are developing a common language and method.

At the same time, a theological school's study of these languages must be a critical study.

Studying media texts is now an integral part of the school curriculum and teachers are used to drawing attention to the power of manipulative language when looking at advertising.

Luther's studies were becoming more exciting than ever, because he had time to start Greek, the original language of the Christian source texts and was dabbling in Hebrew the language of the Old Testament, getting to know at least the alphabet, and a few words, from Reuchlin's Rudiments which he already possessed.

He and his disciples were hopeful that by studying the development of languages they could arrive at the essence of religion «scientifically.»

Study group participants generally agree that at least one central affirmation of the creed's father - son language involves the generative relation of the first to the second person of the Trinity: the second person comes «of the same stuff» and is not a creature.

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»?

How cool that your site is in 3 languages - I studied French and Spanish at university so it's especially fun for me

Because the overnighting infants tried to get their mother's attention and gazed at her more often — which on the actual test is a positive sign of readiness to learn language — the study's authors concluded that the overnighting infants were more watchful and wary about their mother's whereabouts, indicating more anxiety and insecurity.

According to Robert Hall, professor of pediatrics at the University of Missouri School of Medicine in Kansas City, there was no statistical difference in growth, language development, vision or cognitive development among the children studied, although in most categories the breast - fed infants did show slightly better performance.

Breastfed babies show signs of early brain development, particularly in regions associated with language, emotional function and cognition, according to a new study at Brown University.

At New Legacy, language arts and social studies are combined into integrated theme - based humanities courses; math is taught in a blended environment that enables teachers to effectively support and challenge a diverse group of learners; and science is taught in six - week modules that focus on scientific inquiry and the scientific process.

Dr. Nina Kraus, a groundbreaking neuroscientist at Northwestern University, has been studying the effects of music training on brain development — with the use of non-invasive approaches in humans — and on the development of language skills.

And as the study demonstrated, babies 9 months and under do especially well in play - based language sessions with a live tutor just as well as they would be learning the language in a natural environment at home.

However, a new study published recently in Science suggests that this capacity to reason logically may not just depend on language, at least not entirely.

The information in this pregnancy book is based on the latest research (at the time of publication, 1999) in maternity care and outlines it all in clear, concise language with references for all of the studies cited in the book.

Historically, very premature infants are at increased risk of language delay.The study now identifies an easy to implement and cost effective intervention — come talk and sing to your baby — to improve outcomes.»

Findings from the National Early Head Start Research and Evaluation project, a rigorous Congressionally - mandated study, indicate that the program had modest but positive impacts on EHS children at age three in cognitive, language, and social - emotional development, compared to a control group.xxiii In addition, their parents scored higher than control group parents on such aspects of the home environment as parenting behavior and knowledge of infant - toddler development.

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

Other studies have linked insufficient levels of vitamin D during pregnancy with language impairment in children at 5 and 10 years of age.

According to a study conducted by Stanford University researchers and published in Psychological Science in 2013, toddlers who are exposed to more words at a young age have a larger vocabulary and better language proficiency later on.

But a 2009 study conducted at Italy's International School for Advanced Studies showed that bilingual babies have vocabularies in each language (about 50 words at 18 months) that are comparable to those of babies who are learning only one.

A lot of the most interesting work in this field has come out of the lab of Amanda Woodward, a psychologist at the University of Chicago who came to the subject after studying language development in graduate school.

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.»