Sentences with phrase «than their language ability»

Children with autism may have better - developed visual abilities than language abilities and enjoy activities like building toys and drawing, which allow them to use their strengths.

Not exact matches

But there was no improvement in verbal functioning and language schools, other than the ability to order, without a trip of the tongue, that «grande, quad, nonfat, one - pump, no - whip mocha.»

It ranked more important than the quality of their listings, their Chinese language abilities or even their experience working with Chinese buyers.»

A commitment to biblical realism will heighten rather than weaken our ability to converse with our neighbors in their own language, if we become clear about the differences which distinguish one language game from another.

Ability to speak three or four of the most prevalent languages is not much help, for the barrier to understanding is far more serious than the barrier of language.

In our new aims of education for the 1980's and beyond, therefore, we shall have to dedicate ourselves to bringing back, among other things, the civilized use of language (both written and oral), a sensitivity to beauty, powers of analytical reasoning, the intellectual vision of ourselves as historical creatures, the ability to cognitively articulate ideas rather than let communication skills courses degenerate into merely «touchie - feelie» experiences of «affirming the other,» and finally, a sensitivity to the nuances, complexities, and ambiguities of meanings.7 In this way, and only in this way, our educational system will equip its students for the future with an intellectual vision comprised of both knowledge and foresightful adaptability to environmental changes.

And I'm reading the texts translated, since I lack abilities in any language other than English.

I hope he brings Bellerin and Gibbs back if they are fit.People seem to forget how consistent Gibbs has been over the past years.Injuries have halted his abilities a lot.When he was young i thought he was gonna be world class.Monreal inform ai nt better than Gibbs inform.Debuchy has not won the battle yet to start at right back hence he should come back.Gabriel should have started over Per from day one but for language barrier.Also Ramsey Cazorla and Ozil should not be playing in the same team.

The big difference is that they have language or the ability to express themselves in otherways than crying.

Her understanding of language and her motor skills develop much faster than her ability to speak.

Both their understanding of language and their motor skills develop much faster than their ability to speak.

Babies have a remarkable ability to pick up more than one language.

One characteristic of gifted children is advanced language ability, which means these children reach developmental milestones relating to language earlier than developmental charts would indicate.

Contrary to much belief, the researchers found that ability to read in a first language is less important in SFL reading than proficiency in the new language being learned.

«The most important tool an officer has is his ability to use his language and diffuse things rather than allow it to escalate,» another source explained, «particularly when the testosterone levels are beginning to rise.»

Those scores reflect teacher evaluations from the 2013 - 14 school year, the same year that less than 4 in 10 students across the state showed proficient abilities in math and English language assessments.

Pre-adolescent children typically possess better linguistic learning abilities than adults, making it easier for them to learn a new language.

Rather than considering toolmaking as a proxy for language ability, he and his colleagues explored the way that language may help modern humans learn to make such tools.

Rather than diving into the question of ape language and dissecting Koko's abilities, Koko — The Gorilla Who Talks focuses more on the relationship between Koko and researcher Penny Patterson.

But some linguists now question whether this apparent difference in language - learning ability reflects our attitudes to young children and adults rather than differences in the brain.

However, even though an adolescent with good language and cognitive skills may experiment with drinking earlier than his / her less advanced peer, better verbal and intellectual abilities have [also] been found to be protective against developing severe problems with alcohol and other substances in adulthood.»

«We should not be satisfied with language levels that are lower than a child's cognitive ability.»

Wong: It implies that they had a similar ability to form words; it doesn't tell us anything about language, which is much more [than] the mechanical ability to form words.

His team's study looked only at babies less than a month old, and it's not clear whether the babies will retain the memories as they get older, or whether in utero learning has an effect on language learning or ability later in life.

And that suggests that this ability — which is an important building block of human language — extends further back in time in our primate lineage than previously thought.

Another of the authors, Stephen Levinson, comments, «This is a bit of an unexpected finding, since many have thought that grammar might give us deeper insight into the linguistic past than vocabulary, but there is still some reason for caution: we compared highly conservative vocabulary with an unfiltered range of grammar variables, and the language family is unusual for the way it diversified during colonization of successive islands, But what is clear is that grammar and vocabulary changes are not closely coupled, even within branches of a family, so looking at them both significantly advances our ability to reconstruct linguistic history.»

And all the Blackberries, Etrali super-phones, laptops and monitors — a constant stream of communication and information — pale in significance to the most important trait a carbon broker can have: The ability to «smell BS» as Hochschild put it, even more important than speaking any of the multiplicity of languages carbon is traded in today.

But those languages didn't come out on top in an analysis of dating behavior in the US that found the ability to speak a second language other than English appears to make people vastly more attractive to the opposite sex — and also that your second tongue of choice matters.

No matter what language you speak, you now have the ability to understand each other and be closer than ever.

Balagueró earlier displayed his gift for atmosphere — and his far - lagging writing abilities — three years prior to Darkness with the 1999 Spanish - language Los Sin Nombre, which is even more inscrutable and frustrating than the later film.

According to the study, Impacts of a Prekindergarten Program on Children's Mathematics, Language, Literacy, Executive Function, and Emotional Skills, more than 2,000 children enrolled in the BPS program have shown improvements in children's language, literacy, math, executive function (the ability to regulate, control, and manage one's thinking and actions), and emotional development skills citywide.

In addition, a survey of English language arts classrooms published by the Fordham Institute found that most elementary - school teachers, at least in the early stages of common core implementation, assigned books based on students» abilities, rather than grade - level complexity, as the standards state.

In fact, as she has also learned, the ability to speak more than one language in a changing world is not only helpful, but it could actually be a survival skill.

The ability to speak more than one language is a real richness in our society.

More than half of the language - minority children whose reading abilities are substantially below the national average are not receiving bilingual or English - as - a-second-language instruction, according to a study by the Educational Testing Service.

A 22 - page letter from the OCR states that the district's bilingual education program is less demanding than the general curriculum; that many bilingual education teachers do not have appropriate Spanish - language abilities; and that some students receive services from paraprofessionals instead of certified teachers.

They will achieve a rewarding result quickly; and in so doing develop confidence in their ability to control the language, rather than have it control them.

It is clear that the ability to use written language to communicate with others — and the corresponding need for effective writing instruction and assessment — is more relevant than ever.

This suggests that the lower - than - average recruitment and retention rates in science and languages may have constrained schools» ability to offer more teaching in response to the growing incentive to do so.

ASIMO — which stands for Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility — features enhanced hand dexterity, including the ability to sign in both Japanese and American sign language, as well as the ability to run faster than previously, climb stairs more smoothly, hop, jump, balance on one foot, and transition seamlessly between walking and running, among other new and unique capabilities.

Nothing collapses your abilities with the English language more than texting with someone you find very physically / mentally attractive.

The DLAB is designed to determine a recruit's ability to learn a language category rather than current fluency in any one language.

Powerful language and the ability to deliver something deeper than a superficial plot are equally defining characteristics.

The same will hold true for authors publishing through Kindle.de's Kindle Direct Publishing, which will result in the ability to reach a far wider audience than German - language authors were able to maximize on in the past.

In addition, the new Reader line is more global than ever, offering users the ability to look up words and phrases with the built in New Oxford American Dictionary, Second Edition and Oxford Dictionary of English eDictionaries, as well as 10 translation dictionaries in languages such as French, German, Spanish, Italian and Dutch.

The acquisition of Harlequin in 2014 extended the company's global platform and digital presence, resulting in the ability to publish in more than 30 languages and publishing operations in a dozen new countries.

General SwiftKey features: — Unique next - word prediction engine based on word context — Rapid and comprehensive learning of individual writing style — Up to 50 % greater text entry efficiency than oth market solutions — A third of next words predicted without any character input — Relevant, personalized predictions — 14 languages supported, with ability to predict in two languages simultaneously: English (US), English (UK), Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (PT), Portuguese (BR), Spanish, Swedish — Multiple keyboard layouts supported: QWERTY English, QWERTY International, QWERTY Danish, QWERTY Norwegian, QWERTY Swedish, AZERTY, QZERTY and QWERTZ — HD skin with sharp graphics and font on all screen sizes — Advanced error correction designed for small mobile keyboards — Inline spelling and grammar correction — Automatic accent insertion (for non-English character entry)-- Voice dictation support for English, Spanish, French, German and Italian — Multi-touch support

Creatures When dropping Toki in a nest, birds now have a «cooldown», so they won't instantly pick you up again when walking out of the nest Birds don't stop anymore when they sense vibration, making them less annoying when accidentically stomping near them No more random sorting of creatures: they all appear on their assigned depth value, preventing smaller creatures from sometimes getting lost behind bigger creatures Fixed the «spawning multiple camera birds» bug Slug corpses can't kill anymore, so no more accidentally walking into them and dying Bugs When stomped, berrybugs and copybugs now always hop the same distance (3 tiles), making their behavior more predictible Berrybugs now briefly stop if they detect an edge above their heads while walking on the floor, making it easier to stomp them onto a wall Copybugs and berrybugs get stunned when they're in the trajectory of a to be spawned bubble, so they can't hop / roll away before bubble is spawned Glowy berrybugs now use the same turn animation as normal berrybugs, so no more faster glow bugs Frogs and bubbles Bubbles now prioritize Toki Tori over other entities, so no more accidental berrybug ballooning Added a small delay before catching an entity in a bubble to allow for catching Toki Tori, even if he's a little further away than an entity Added possibility to queue a «turn by whistle» while the frog is running towards a berrybug, so you don't have to wait before being able to let the frog face the desired direction Fixed a problem where a fat frog won't belch anymore Achievements In - menu achievements system, including progress achievements Added a number of new achievements Tokidex completion is now a progress achievement (you can see how far along you are) Fixed the Fried Chicken achievement, so it's less hard to get All electrocuted entities now count for the X-Ray Enthusiast achievement Menu Completely new, streamlined and fast to access menu system Ability to set language from menu New font Graphics Improved presentation of telepathic Ancient Frog messages, fixed a problem where sometimes they'd spawn multiple times Fixed black flickering when buttonbashing during fades and level transitions Screenfades are now 100 % black Added button prompts to the first time you need to use whistle and stomp Areas and puzzles Added l - ife area for Ife < 3 Added an extra landing stone in the wasteland area Added more snow globes: — RRB - Water mountain approach: berrybug in the «pro» puzzle can no longer be lost Water mountain top: frog for Ancient Frog puzzle now starts bloated, added light to make «pro» puzzle easier to execute Shaft top: Small tweak to make sure berrybug isn't killed by the slugs midway through the level Water cave: made the light shaft where you need to whistle the hermit crab a bit wider, created hole for frogs at end of level to prevent them from falling down, made some «pro» puzzles a bit more forgiving Dark forest: lowered warp when entering dark area, so it's easier to travel up with a bubble Lava cave: improved bat puzzle Meadow: made some pro puzzles less difficult Hideout: removed alternative solution for Ancient Frog puzzle Descent: made it easier to pick up fat frog at beginning

I'm not aware of this ability in other languages, but programming is just a tool for me, rather than my professional field.

The key benefits of such injunctions were the speed with which the English courts can decide upon the issue of jurisdiction and the ability to have the debate over jurisdiction in English rather than a foreign language without the need to instruct legal advisers in another country.