Sentences with phrase «studying languages so»

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The Tower of Babel is so obviously idiotic that only someone who'd never studied liguistics or even a foreign language could buy it.

They study their sacred texts, memorize them and talk about them so much that adherents share a deep, rich common language.

Let us begin with language, perhaps the most fundamental of all studies because of the fact that speech is so clearly a distinguishing feature of human beings within the whole created order and because it is so essential to the effective conduct of all human affairs, including every aspect of education.

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.

This type of confusion is common among people who have erroneous ideas about the origin of the earth and so never bothered to study linguistics... if god gave us ready made language, why bother?

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.

And so Tocqueville recommends that the Americans destined for a literary career study those Greek and Roman writers in their original language.

But we also need to study the Bible with the people of our culture and age, so that we not only ask their questions, but also speak their language.

So, I'll do more studying, if anyone has any links they could give me it would much appreciated, it is just baffling to me to know that man was created around animals in the beginning how ever, was able to pull away from the animals and begin an intelligent form a language, I can sort of see creating things that they needed from need.

If her training eventually pulls her back into her professional role so that she is able to study her reactions, she may notice that she has been led to picture the story of humankind as being played out solely by males: inventing language, passing it on to the next generation of sons, inventing pottery for use as containers, fashioning needles in order to make better clothing.

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»?

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

oh well you can laugh David but always when I make a recipe I study a little, language, food has differents names in others countries so my «work «is the people not only like the recipe they have to understand.

So while it's crazy to me that even after 2 years of studying Chinese full time, I had still never learned the word router, I was still encouraged to know that I could get by with my current language level and a dictionary.

Personally, I find it rather ironic that you're lecturing the blog author on the rigor of language, when, faced with the need to support the claims made by a documentary that has faced absolutely no real standards of intellectual rigor or merit (the kind of evidence you apparently find convincing), you have so far managed to produce a study with a sample size too small to conclude anything, a review paper that basically summarized well known connections between vaginal and amniotic flora and poor outcomes in labor and birth before attempting to rescue what would have been just another OB review article with a few attention grabbing sentences about long term health implications, and a review article published in a trash journal.

Her parents moved to US about 3 month with her and they son, so, my niece're studying english as a second language for the first time, I think this book will be very useful for her

«Progress has already been made in understanding first language reading problems — so we co-operated with psychologists who studied a group of dyslexic readers over many years.

And so this was also the beginning of years of study and research into the nature of scientific language and how it could best be taught, which was to culminate many years later in a PhD plus a book on the subject: Text and Argumentation in English for Science and Technology.

I believe I would not have picked up the language so fast had I stayed on to do my postgraduate studies in China.

Given that the language used by parents is so intrinsically linked with child language development, the results of the study suggest that prolonged exposure to background TV has a negative influence.

«Numerous studies have found speaking more than one language can enhance academic performance, so we would encourage parents to continue speaking their first language with their children.

Those names provide a shared language so scientists can communicate what they are studying and what they've learned, allowing knowledge to build over time.

But the results of a new study, described in the early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, challenge this so - called critical period hypothesis, suggesting that people can in fact process a second language in much the same way as they process their first.

The real value of a short, intensive course like the boot camp, Gray says, is in learning the language and recognizing the gaps in your knowledge so that you know what to study in the future.»

«It is interesting that people who are genetically so different, who almost certainly looked different and spoke different languages adopted the agricultural lifestyle almost simultaneously in different parts of Anatolia and the Near East,» said Professor Joachim Burger, senior author of the study.

«We were asked not to go to school [in order] to put pressure on the state so that we could study the Berber language,» Bounceur says.

Dubock, who has kept in touch with the research team, says they avoided the term «genetically modified» because U.S. government guidelines on consent forms ask researchers to explain a study in «language understandable to the subject or the representative,» and because the term «genetically modified» has become so loaded that people might equate it with danger.

«We wanted to examine the influence of both environment and the learner on language, so we included children from a wide socio - economic range to look at variation in learning environments, and children with early brain injuries to study variation in learners,» said Goldin - Meadow.

Every language has this amazing similar ordering of colors, so that reds are more consistently communicated than greens or blues,» says Edward Gibson, an MIT professor of brain and cognitive sciences and the first author of the study, which appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the week of Sept. 18.

«This OMA can assist these learners in their understanding of difficult concepts and can make their studies so much better if they have access to subject content in their own language, i.e. Sign Language.»

Because there is so much variation in calls both between individuals and species, food calls provide a good way to study the origin of language, says Clay.

Functional imaging studies have also shown that autistic minds show decreased activity and connectivity in areas of the so - called «social brain» — regions important for language, face recognition and emotion.

But a new study gives me and other auditorily assaulted parents an even better reason to reject battery - operated toys: Electronic toys mute the conversations between parents and babies that are so important for language development.

The findings will likely be of interest to language researchers, especially those who study so - called «linguistic alignment» in relationships, Kaschak and his coauthor suggest.

You look so lovely, Rena, is it really warm in Germany now??? Not in Milan:) I spoke your language fluently at university after years of study, you know, it's sot so simple... Kisses!

Currently studying the Russian language, so any help from someone who knows would be great!

I do speak a few languages so I probably was helped by that when I studied Russian but my experience is that it was great fun to learn and I have learned to know a lot of new people thanks to my studies.

University of Texas researchers Eden Davis and Karen Fingerman suspected that their were contrasts between their motivations for online dating, but wanted to determine this through the content of their profiles, so they conducted a study published this month about the differences in profile language and motivation each age group has when it comes to dating.

I also happen to like swimming, and t.v. I'm getting my BA in English language learner studies, so I can move to Japan.

I like making friends from all over the world so I study different languages and I love exposing myself to foreign cultures when ever I can.

In the wake of a 1995 study that found a dramatic gap in the number of words heard by high - and low - income children — the so - called 30 million word gap — much attention has been given to efforts to enrich kids» language exposure.

The cross-curriculum priority «Asia and Australia's engagement with Asia» will link geographical study of the Asia region to other aspects of the Australian Curriculum, including the study of Asian languages, so students can participate fully in the Asian Century.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

10 higher level thinking questions for deepening understanding and developing mathematical language Having studied in a course based on AFL strategies, I have a new found love (so to speak) for asking higher level questions during lessons to evoke discussion between students.

Even so, the estimated effects for math, reading, and social studies are negative, and the estimated effect for language is effectively zero.

That includes language arts, science, art, music, social studies, and so on.

Digital mapping tools like CommunityWalk provide a somewhat simpler format to work with, so even the novice language arts teacher can try his or her hand at digitalizing a favorite novel study.

*** Includes 129 original reading passages and comprehension questions *** *** Includes 30 fluency passages *** *** Includes 11 Reading Posters *** - character, setting, realism and fantasy, main idea and details, cause and effect, author's purpose, compare and contrast, sequence, plot, theme, and drawing conclusions *** Includes four level charts for teachers, parents, or students, so that they can keep track of their progress *** *** Includes a roster - words correct per minute for each student / child for fall / winter / spring *** Skills addressed in this resource: # 1 - think and search # 2 - author and me # 3 - analyze text structure # 4 - identify setting # 5 - identify character # 6 - identify plot # 7 - make and confirm predictions # 8 - cause and effect # 9 - compare and contrast # 10 - retell # 11 - classify and categorize # 12 - alliteration # 13 - rhyme and rhythmic patterns # 14 - onomatopoeia # 15 - similes # 16 - repetition and word choice # 17 - sensory language # 18 - study skills # 19 - text features # 20 - genres This is GREAT practice for testing while also providing a lot of fluency practice!

We've met so many kids who were inspired to study Japanese language as a result of their love for these movies and later by the whole anime genre.