Sentence examples for director of language from inspiring English sources

Her mother retired as the director of language arts for the Farmingdale Public Schools district, also on Long Island, where she supervised the district's reading and English programs.

Zelda was a high school English teacher, a vice-principal, and finally, the director of language arts for the entire Miami-Dade school system.

When the euro crisis began, the branches in southern Europe of the Goethe Institute, the German equivalent of the British Council, were overwhelmed by demand for German courses, says Heike Uhlig, the institute's director of language programmes.

More of a concern in the US, according to Richard Brecht, director of language policy initiatives at the University of Maryland, is the lack of support for language learning at federal level.

The terrorist attacks of 9/11 and the war in Iraq "dented but did not seriously affect" the business, according to Margot Haldenby, program director of Languages Abroad in Toronto, (800) 219-9924, www.languagesabroad.com.

Ron Langer, director of languages at the Fujitsu Software Corporation in San Jose, Calif., dreads making the bimonthly trek from his home office in Bend, Ore., to the company's headquarters for project meetings.

Jocelyn Wyburd, chair of the university council of modern languages and director of the language centre at Cambridge, sees the expansion of ab initio as "universities grappling with a pipeline problem" – a "woeful" 48% of the GCSE cohort last year took at least one language.

Classroom courses are preferable for beginners who are serious about learning a language, said Mike Ledgerwood, director of the language learning and research center at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

He is also the Director of the Language and Society Centre within the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash.

Jocelyn Wyburd, director of the language centre at Cambridge University, said students with English as an additional language were labelled as a problem to be solved, even though many schools reported such pupils out-performing native speakers.

Scrapping the compulsory language element of the curriculum was a 'terrible mistake', says Nick Byrne, the director of the Language Centre at the London School of Economics.