Four of the children who participated in the study were eventually excluded from the final sample due to extended absences (two children), disruptive behavior (one child), and the discovery that French was not the child's first language (one child).
The blinded observers participating in this phase of the study had English as first language (one anesthesia and one critical care technician) or second language (a veterinarian, completing her PhD in veterinary anesthesiology whose native language is Thai).
Although a majority of parents seeking caretakers for their children still seek ones who will speak to their children in English, popular parenting blogs and Web sites indicate that a noticeable number of New York City parents are looking for baby sitters and nannies to help their children learn a second language, one they may not speak themselves.
* Brandeis University National Women's Committee, San Fernando chapter, needs volunteers to teach English as a second language one-on-one.
If you're looking to learn your first language, pick one that seems forgiving (JavaScript isn't a bad one to get your feet wet), wrap your head around the core universal concepts of programming, then start worrying about all the little differences.
The ease of speaking in his first language is one reason Martínez became upset when he read an article by The Associated Press last month quoting Sammy Sosa verbatim in English after Sosa was caught using a corked bat.
The currently injured Johan Djourou, a Swiss national, was born in Abidjan and has French as his first language, while one imagines that Vermaelen, although a Flamand rather than a Walloon, must have picked up something of Belgium's other tongue.
With the global nature of business today, there is a prevalence of employees whose first language is one other than English.
The billboards advertise the new nonstops to Madrid; almost half the passengers at the airport are bound outside the United States; English is the first language of one-quarter of the county's population.
Jantjie's first language is Xhosa, one of 11 official languages in South Africa, the minister continued.
Bush defended himself, saying that English is his first language and the one that he usually speaks — but that when someone asks him a question in Spanish, he will respond in the same language.
