Sentences with phrase «when studying a language»

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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.

I feel a warm glow and a sense of affirmation when I learn of churches which are eliminating sexist language from their worship services and liturgy, of ministers who are studying and preaching about feminist theology and the Mother - Father God, of consciousness - raising groups and task forces on sexism in the church.

Then when someone does actually learn the languages, and then says they are not worthwhile, people who have studied them longer jump all over them and say, «Well, if you had only taken four years instead of two.»

they all say same thing pretty much... got to remember we can not fully trust 100 percent all translations... which is why one needs to study properly by using Koine Greek (for NT) dictionaries and concordances... and Hebrew dictionaries for OT... when one realizes how the versions are trnalated they will see this... also... thuis is true of ANY piece of literature... have you ever studied and spoken another r language?

All disciplined thinking, even when it proceeds — as most of it does — in the solitary confines of the study, derives from and therefore depends upon social processes like language and tradition.

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.

Here is the language of the opening point in the Statement of Fundamental Truths as it read when, as a late teenager in the early 1950s, I first began the study of theology:

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.

But after critically studying his body language in the central role and his body language when on the flanks, I just sympathize with him.

Studies show that when gestures are used, toddlers pick up language skills quicker.

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.

Studies have shown that babies retain the language accent in which they are addressed and even repeat it when crying.

Participating children had higher rates of high - school completion, lower rates of grade retention and special education placement, and a lower rate of juvenile arrests.32 Another example showing more intensive programming has larger impacts is the Healthy Steps evaluation showing significantly better child language outcomes when the program was initiated prenatally through 24 months.33 These studies suggest that a more intensive intervention involving the child directly may be required for larger effects to be seen.

When I am not studying, or spending time with my Kesem family, I love to dabble in photography and learn new languages!

In a fourteen - year study, the preschool children of mothers who described a picture using emotional language showed more empathy and better social skills when they got older.

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has promised the Muslim community that it will promote the study of the Arabic language across the country in addition to its plans to restore allowances for teachers and nurses in training colleges, when voted into power.

The study found that a number of young people who had suffered from language problems in childhood often still find it difficult to understand speech as young adults, especially when spoken quickly.

When we applied the techniques we use to study language learning to this...

In a similar study Gratch co-authored with ICT senior research associate Gale Lucas and colleagues in 2016, participants were shown to often misread honesty when negotiating with each other because reassuring cues like head movement, positive language and even smiling signal honesty, but actually more frequently represent dishonest action and behaviors.

When it comes to languages, the Pama - Nyungan tree «gives us the first and only hypothesis of the higher - level branching of the Pama - Nyungan family,» says Harold Koch, a historical linguist at ANU who was not involved in the Nature study, although he was Bowern's undergraduate adviser.

«What we found was that moms in our study used a special form of language — something called generics — as frequently when reading the picture storybook to their child as the picture vocabulary book,» said Professor O'Neill.

Example illustrations of the style that researchers used in books to study the language that parents use when reading with children.

«It is our hope that this study shows that even with limited resources, and even when there are language barriers, we can make a difference in the lives of children through leveraging technology,» said Selcuk Sirin, J.K. Javits professor of applied psychology at NYU Steinhardt and a Project Hope investigator.

He compares the process of finding and studying stone tools to being blindfolded and set down in a time and place where the only way to tell where and when you are is to listen to the language being spoken.

«Humans organize their knowledge of social relationships into a hierarchical structure, and they also make use of hierarchical structures when deducing relationships between words in language,» notes study co-author Robert Seyfarth.

Proponents of climate change tend to use more conservative, tentative language to report on the science behind it, while skeptics use more emotional and assertive language when reinterpreting scientific studies, says research from the University of Waterloo.

When the study was repeated with 32 English monolinguals, participants did not show the same shift in perception; they labeled «ba» and «pa» sounds the same way regardless of which language they were told they were hearing.

A new study by MIT researchers indicates that when we process language, we often make these kinds of mental edits.

In both studies parents showed more disbelief and less belief through their language and actions when joking in comparison to pretending.

And Steven Pinker, a cognitive psychologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who studies how infants learn language and was only an infant himself when Chomsky first outlined his theory, has attempted to explain this ambitious quest in a provocative book, The Language Instinct (Review, 26 February).

«The phenomenon is very intense when we read in our native language but, according to the new study, if we read in a second language learnt after our mother tongue, then this physiological response, while not disappearing completely, is drastically lessened.»

In a new study, published in Brain and Cognition, he now shows what happens when we read in a second language learnt in adulthood.

«Culture affects how people deceive others, study shows: People's language changes when they lie depending on their cultural background..»

«When we look at it, it turns out it's the same across every language that we studied.

That study examined the phenomenon of «code - switching,» wherein adults speak more than one language and «mix» those languages when speaking to their children.

This study looked into the modulatory effects that musical training could have on the use of the different sides of the brain when performing music and language tasks.»

The authors — a team hailing from several European institutions — studied infants aged 12 and 19 months, when language learning and speech production has just begun but before complex mastery has been achieved.

Researchers value eye tracking when studying kids with SLI and other language disorders because it offers a window into how their young minds work.

Summing up the study, co-author Prof Robert Franciscus from the University of Iowa said: «When and how humans became the exceptionally intelligent and language - using species that we are today is still a great mystery.

The San created the code because of past transgressions, including use of insulting language such as the term «Bushmen,» using jargon when communicating with the San, failing to consult study communities about findings before publication, and approaching individuals before asking community leaders for permission.

«When you have symbols, then you have language,» study co-author João Zilhão, told The New York Times.

First, the study explains that people who speak more than one language have improved cognitive skills and suffer less cognitive deterioration than their monolingual counterparts, especially when it comes to reading and writing.

I wish I could know for certain but when discussing research I am «not sure» (again sorry) if studies are 100 % replicable, therefore we need to be careful how we choose our language.

Some study participants noted that when yoga was initially introduced at EUSD, it included cultural artifacts, such as Sanskrit language, mandalas, Hindu stories, prayer mudra (i.e. bringing hands together at one's heart), and a poster that outlined the eight limbs of yoga from Patanjali's yoga sutras.

Even the word introvert is stigmatized — one informal study, by psychologist Laurie Helgoe, found that introverts described their own physical appearance in vivid language («green - blue eyes,» «exotic,» «high cheekbones»), but when asked to describe generic introverts they drew a bland and distasteful picture («ungainly,» «neutral colors,» «skin problems»).

When yoga was created, people weren't concerned with studying someone else's culture or language.

This is why studying someone's body language when falling in love...

There are five levels of vulnerable language, and when we eventually access the final stage with a romantic partner, studies show that couples feel safe and extremely connected.

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.