Sentences with phrase «very poor language»

This means that children need to be helped to catch up as quickly as possible, he says, which, rather than learning formal lessons, might be about being taught to use a knife and fork or to improve very poor language skills.

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Coverage in the English language press has been very poor as can be expected from corporate media.

Your comments are very uninformed and your poor use of language makes it even more obvious.

Neuhaus argues that such poor drafting resulted from the bishops being in a media — inspired panic, he ignores the fact that the very definition he quotes refers to Canon 1395 — 2, which itself, like canon law generally, employs this kind of very vague language.

And Yes, I'm going criticize him for his body language, because it's in very poor taste to be sitting and laughing on the bench when your team is losing, and such fashion... and it's not just that... Swansea game comes to mind.

Kennedy again easily won re-election to the Senate in 2006, winning 69 percent of the vote against Republican language school owner Kenneth Chase, who suffered from very poor name recognition.

Now again I use very carefully the word cure so I hope you will forgive me because of my poor mastering of the English language because sometimes let me say things may be inappropriate.

The first and the main one is definitely poor language skills — women in Russia appear to be more progressive than men who usually speak no or very rusty English.

«Deficits in reading and language skills due to poor classroom acoustics are cumulative the effects of poor classroom acoustics on the very young student can be devastating.»

The data is very clear, AF students are less poor than students in the district schools, they have less English as a second language needs, they go home to schools where English is usually the primary language and they have less special education needs.

The follow chart shows, yet again, that charter schools cream off the children that are less poor and they provide very limited access to Latino students, especially those who go home to families where English is not the primary language.

This question is very important as you do not want to waste your money on a piece of work which is irrelevant to your topic or is written in poor English language.

Recent theoretical work suggests that bullying might arise out of early cognitive deficits — including language problems, imperfect causal understanding, and poor inhibitory control — that lead to decreased competence with peers, which over time develops into bullying.14, 15 A small number of studies provide circumstantial evidence that such a hypothesis might have merit7: 1 study found a link between poor early cognitive stimulation and (broadly defined) inappropriate school behavior, 16 and another found cognitive stimulation at age 3 years to be protective against symptoms of attention - deficit disorder at age 7 years.17 A study of Greek children found that academic self - efficacy and deficits in social cognition were related to bullying behavior.18 A large US national survey found that those who perceive themselves as having average or below - average academic achievement (as opposed to very good achievement) are 50 % to 80 % more likely to be bullies.8 Yet these studies are based on cross-sectional surveys, with the variables all measured at a single point in time.

These included characteristics on multiple levels of the child's biopsychosocial context: (1) child factors: race / ethnicity (white, black, Hispanic, and Asian / Pacific Islander / Alaska Native), age, gender, 9 - month Bayley Mental and Motor scores, birth weight (normal, moderately low, or very low), parent - rated child health (fair / poor vs good / very good / excellent), and hours per week in child care; (2) parent factors: maternal age, paternal age, SES (an ECLS - B — derived variable that includes maternal and paternal education, employment status, and income), maternal marital status (married, never married, separated / divorced / widowed), maternal general health (fair / poor versus good / very good / excellent), maternal depression (assessed by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale at 9 months and the World Mental Health Composite International Diagnostic Interview at 2 years), prenatal use of tobacco and alcohol (any vs none), and violence against the mother; (3) household factors: single - parent household, number of siblings (0, 1, 2, or 3 +), language spoken at home (English vs non-English), neighborhood good for raising kids (excellent / very good, good, or fair / poor), household urbanicity (urban city, urban county, or rural), and modified Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment — Short Form (HOME - SF) score.