Sentences with phrase «who learn language»

«We know that parents who gesture and communicate more with children have children who learn language quicker.

Students who learn another language show greater cognitive development in creativity and higher order thinking skills such as problem solving, conceptualisation and reasoning.

For example, a child who learns a language while very young and then stops speaking the language will find it far easier to relearn years later than will an adult attempting to master it for the first time.

There is a huge divide between those who learn languages and those who don't.

Not exact matches

Whether it's mastering a new coding language or learning to play the violin, employees who are are engaged and thriving in ways that matter to them personally, are more likely to maintain a strong work performance.

That will facilitate Meetup's 35 million users who gather to learn languages, create goods, or discuss their passions and hobbies.

Past winners include: Howard W. Lutnick, chief executive of BGC Partners, who was credited with rebuilding BGC's predecessor Cantor Fitzgerald after two - thirds of its headquarters workers were killed in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in 2010; Tom Adams, chief executive of language - learning software Rosetta Stone, in 2009, and Matthew Szulik, chairman of Red Hat open - source software, in 2008.

In a second study, published today (June 2) in the Annals of Neurology, Bak set out to determine if the positive effects of bilingualism on cognition could actually be the other way around: that people who have better cognitive functions are more likely to learn foreign languages.

Lee, who grew up speaking English, has patiently learned Malay, Tamil, and Mandarin Chinese so that he can deliver a speech with equal force in all the common languages of Singapore.

Researchers found that young adults proficient in two languages performed better on attention tests and had better concentration than those who spoke only one language, irrespective of whether they had learned that second language during infancy, childhood or their teen years.

But I was just amazed by how everyone, young and old wanted to be involved... and was so deeply enriched and touched by the experience and the laughter and the love I experienced from the people I met and how women would in particular open their hearts to me and tell me the stories of where they've come from, particularly because I have the language and was coming there as a woman and just how touched they were that I was there as a woman from England who's learned the language and who's an artist and running this project and come all the way to see them so they didn't feel forgotten I think that was pretty much what they felt... that their stories were being heard so they don't feel forgotten knowing the tents would be around the world.

The best way to learn something is from someone who speaks your language.

This morning, The Today Show's Savannah Guthrie asked DeVos about the remarks, saying, «I wonder, as the education secretary, who's in charge of what our kids learn, what do you think of that kind of language?»

In the midst of all this reading, I learned not only to empathize with the suffering and the oppressed, but also to empathize with the oppressors, who - let's face it - often shared my skin tone, my geography, my language, and my faith.

Although Prolog is a powerful and expressive programming language, it is easy to learn — especially by those who have had no previous programming experience.

The project has two subjects, Koko and Michael, who have learned to use American Sign Language (Ameslan), to understand spoken English, and to read printed words.10 Koko's instruction, begun in 1973, is the longest ongoing language study of an ape, and the only one with continuous instruction by the same teacher.

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.

McCabe may have been influenced by Anthony Kenny who calls the mind «a capacity for capacities» (the capacity to learn language, do mathematics etc.).

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.»

Just one case in point, one among thousands is Adrien Van Der Donck, of New Amsterdam who befriended the Natives, learned their language, lived amongst them, advocated on their behalf and for this he was thanked by being bludgeoned in his own home by a Native American.

Each symbolic language is a kind of super-language which has to be learned and understood by those who embrace that religion as their way of life.

I know a linguist who thinks and has seen what he describes as a gift of «tongues», whereby some individuals pick up and learn to speak another language very rapidly, in a matter of days or weeks.

Fatih was a generous patron of learning who endowed many educational foundations, and was himself a serious student who used eight languages and showed his keen interest in the Renaissance by inviting many famous scholars and artists to come and work in Istanbul.

An Emergent definition of relevance, modulated by resistance, might run something like this; relevance means listening before speaking; relevance means interpreting the culture to itself by noting the ways in which certain cultural productions gesture toward a transcendent grace and beauty; relevance means being ready to give an account for the hope that we have and being in places where someone might actually ask; relevance means believing that we might learn something from those who are most unlike us; relevance means not so much translating the churches language to the culture as translating the culture's language back to the church; relevance means making theological sense of the depth that people discover in the oddest places of ordinary living and then using that experience to draw them to the source of that depth (Augustine seems to imply such a move in his reflections on beauty and transience in his Confessions).

In Captain Stormfield's visit to heaven, he learns that the conventional image of angels as winged, white - robed figures bearing haloes, harps, and palm leaves is a mere illusion generated for the benefit of humans, who mistakenly take «figurative language» to be a realistic depiction.

In this conversation with those who being dead yet speak we learn the logic as well as the language of the community that centers in God.

Some of the Chinese I've known, who learned English as a second language, speak English pretty well, but can make mistakes on conjugation; I'm not sure I've noticed issues with pronouns.

how does a person, a professional footballer who's daily schedule is quite light compared to a regular working class citizen, not learn the basics of English language in a year's time span?

Not that Anderson, who lived with Ronaldo at the time, was much help when it came to learning a new language.

Babies who learn sign language are able to communicate their needs long before they can verbalize them.

He discovered how easily hearing babies of deaf parents learned sign language and also noticed that these babies appeared less demanding than babies who didn't know sign language because they could express their thoughts and needs more easily.

I learned to read after the age of 6 and do it quite well by now (in 2.5 languages mind you), well above average and better than many people my age who learned earlier.

A verbally gifted child is one who passes through the stages of language learning more quickly than non-gifted children.

Books help a child add words to her vocabulary, make sense of grammar, and link meanings to pictures, says Desmond Kelly, a developmental - behavioral pediatrician who works with children with learning and language difficulties at the All Kinds of Minds Institute in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Hearing babies who learn sign language are able to communicate at a much earlier age than children who use spoken language alone, and they have larger receptive and expressive vocabularies than babies who don?t sign.

The babies who heard the recording most frequently displayed the strongest response, suggesting that infant language learning begins in utero.

I also teach classes to kids from my home once a week and have found a few families — especially homeschooling families — who really value the learning of a second language and are willing to pay for my services.

Learn more about how playing with dolls teaches kids cognitive, fine motor, self - help, speech - language, and social - emotional skills in this post written in collaboration with a speech therapist and clinical psychologist who specializes in children and play therapy.

Any adult who has tried learning a new language can attest to the fact that it takes some skill and practice to get your brain used to thinking and speaking in different languages.

The reasoning behind this is that kids who were raised to speak 2 or more languages have learned the ability to quickly switch on the part of their brain that lets them understand another language.

Find out whether children who hear more than one language when they're learning to speak have language delays.

This interactive map not only helps learn geography, but it also teaches your child about the people who live across the world, different languages, explains about each culture and has lots of fun learning games.

Most baby signers speak earlier than babies who do not learn baby sign language.

Just ask Elizabeth Pantley who has written the definitive book for new parents to easily learn their baby's sleep cycles, the latest information on safe bed - sharing and how to learn their baby's «language» and communication signals.

2) Cost effective means of learning -: A significant number of people across the globe have encountered the high expenses associated with learning their preferred language, which at time get lost because people who are keen on learning could hardly spare cost and with time either lose heart or the cost increases lot more they can save.

As I am teaching languages to children I have the role as a language coach who wants to keep the kids going and learning!

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.

Mr. Cuomo said, charters should also be subject to legislation that ensures they serve enough high - needs students — English - language learners, learning disabled students and those who receive free lunch.

If you have people who come to your country for higher education (especially for masters and PhD programs), they have stayed here for multiple years, learned local language and habits, obtained a good education, and are quite likely to stay (or leave, but come back in the future).

Mostly, this means the education and income of students, but it also captures factors like the percentage of students learning English as a second language, and the percentage of students who change schools during the course of the school year due to parental job shifts.