The phrase "a language study" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to an examination or analysis of a particular language or languages, often in an academic or research context.
Example: "The results of a language study conducted last year revealed significant trends in bilingual education."
Alternatives: "a linguistic analysis" or "a language analysis".
It was our 14-year-old daughter, Olivia, on a language study trip in Beijing.
In 1980, according to Slate, Herbert Terrace, a psychologist who worked with a chimpanzee in a language study at Columbia University, expressed skepticism about apes' way with words.
The China Institute is an educational and cultural institution founded in 1926 by the American educational philosopher John Dewey and Hu Shih, a prominent Chinese educator; it is not just a language study group.
Tyler Gage, RUNA The Brown graduate discovered Ecuadoran guayusa tea during a language study program in 2005.
In the end I chose to tell the story through human eyes -- those of Ben, a teenager whose father is a hotshot behavioural psychologist conducting a language study with a baby chimpanzee called Zan, in the family home.
A typical liberal arts degree might include learning a language, studying world literature, understanding scientific methods and core principles, world history and philosophy.
But finding a language-study program written to the needs and level of the traveler is, surprisingly, not that easy.
As a bonus, when the students begin a language-study segment in Italian later this term, they will have a head start with the operatic phrases Ms. Ciofalo taught them.
Enrollment is up for English as a Second Language study and in a citizenship training course she runs.
The personal ads in Speak Up suggest that at least some readers cannot entirely accept Hollywood comedies as a serious language study guide, however.
Students of English as a second language study subjects like math, science and social studies in English, often in regular classrooms, while learning English intensively for a few periods a day, tutored in individual or small-group pullout sessions.
