Sentence examples for Language facility from inspiring English sources

Alex's language facility was, in some ways, more surprising than the feats of primates that have been taught American Sign Language, like Koko the gorilla, trained by Penny Patterson at the Gorilla Foundation/Koko.org in Woodside, Calif., or Washoe the chimpanzee, studied by R. Allen and Beatrice Gardner at the University of Nevada in the 1960s and 1970s.

In one case language facility didn't help much.

The eight assessors had a broad range of backgrounds, including prior teaching experience in early care and education, certification in ECE tools, advocacy, consulting, small business practices as well as language facility in English, Spanish and Cantonese.

Japanese language training (or appropriate higher level training for those who already have some language facility) and an introduction to the scientific infrastructure of Japan and its national research priorities.

For the enormous immigrant community, many of whom have little or no English language facility, navigating the arcane application process to these new small schools is next to impossible.

Dr. Jack Buckley, commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, said in a press call that the standards of proficiency were tailored to reflect the computer-based nature of the assessment, and that students' writing was evaluated holistically -- taking into account development of ideas, organization and language facility and conventions.

However, much of the emphasis has been on the need to create networks with communities and to provide language facilities, both instruments aimed at facilitating relationships (and diminishing tensions) between foreign and local workers.

Family reunion, access to language facilities, education and employment remained out of their reach: You feel like a person moving around in circles.

Moreover, French-speakers living in the periphery, which boasts the language facilities, can count on protection, which is mostly unavailable to real minorities.

Yet, the rapid national expansion of the CHPS programme may have contributed to some of the CHNs' frustrations, as the time was not taken to train health workers from the target communities who would have spoken the same language, facilities were not upgraded prior to the increase of health workers and communities were not prepared to provide free housing to CHNs, as originally planned.

The world's leading search engine hoped to resolve two months of uncertainty with Monday's announcement that it had closed its mainland search service and shifted its Chinese-language facility to Hong Kong.