... the visitor, they are better heard from the
mouth ofthe native speaker than read off the page:
aaberdi (Algerian) a cry used when learning fearful news
aawwaah (Dardja, Algeria) a shout of ... In the Gilbert Islands ofthe Pacific,
arou pairi describes the process of rubbing noses in greeting. For
the Japanese, bowing is an important part ofthe process and a sign
16 The Meaning of ... bookshop or library without seeking outthe
shelves where the foreign language dictionaries were kept. I would
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... and centers aroundthe world. I am deeply indebted to the many and diverse contributions
that each and every one of them made.
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Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark. This is due to the availability of 50Mbps service over fiber by
Verizon and the implementation of ... Judging
by these numbers and
their congruence, the
United States is 7
th
out
of the 10 countries
identified, in terms of
hotspots per 100,000
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particular interest in
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... skills in their own languages. Then our task will be twofold: to give
them confidence in English and to equip them with hitherto unknown
skills in either their own mother tongue or English.
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culture of one ofthe TLCs (see (c) above). They learn thelanguage because
they want to know more about the people who speak it, the places ... the students can achieve all the tasks with no difficulty at all they may
lose the motivation that they have when faced withthe right level of
challenge.
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... Vukovic
University of British Columbia
The purpose of this article is to review published studies oftheEnglish literacy of children in
Canada who are Englishlanguage learners (ELLs) withthe goal of understanding ... received all their primary academic schooling in
English. The results might reflect thelanguage background
of the families. Most ofthe parents ofthe participants were
adults when they immigrated ... that of native English- speaking (L1) students with and without RD. Our
review found that ELLs with RD experienced reading difficulties similar to those of L1 students
with RD. On the basis of the...
... withthe appropriate-
ness ofthe accommodations for the constructs being tested and the objec-
tives for the assessment program. In a recent case in Indiana (Rene v. Reed),
the decision ofthe ... make
the classification while others use the numbers of years of exposure to in-
struction in an English- speaking environment or other factors. Durán be-
lieves that determination of English- language ... measured proficiency in English. He has found that it is not often done
this way, in part because there are few tests ofEnglish proficiency and
considerable disagreement about the quality of existing...
...
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of A withthe span of any treebank non-terminal. A
grammar parse is structure-consistent withthe treebank
parse if all of ... probabilities are expressed in terms ofthe set
of mnemonics (that is, by the nodes in the mnemonic
tree), rather that in terms ofthe actual nonterminals of
the grammar. It is in this manner ... above) that the geometric mean ofthe
number of parses per word, or equivalently the total num-
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understanding ofthe need and interest
of each class on the part ofthe teacher.
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very big. In regular classes, students
are often ofthe same age, ... university
teachers, about 70%, prefer their
students to do some remedial work
within their groups or with other
groups before they make their
correction. They believe that their
ability to do ... utilized in the
classroom, its procedure with several
steps should be clarified to the students
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expressions
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comparisons
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