Sentence examples for focus of language from inspiring English sources

The acquisition of linguistic competence, defined as the knowledge about the grammar of a language (Chomsky, 1980), has traditionally been the focus of language teaching.

To address these problems, it may be necessary to shift the focus of language research from the study of linguistic competence to the understanding of language use.

Indeed, it has even been maintained that while the focus of language in English is the sentence, in claasical Chinese it is context (DeFrancis 1984: 52; Hansen 1992: 34).

The solutions proposed are the organization of translation resources with a proactive approach which are adapted to real needs, and a change in the focus of language training activities for the adults in the community.

The solutions proposed are an institutional change of attitude regarding the use of child translators, improved organization of translation resources and their adaptation to real needs, as well as a change in the focus of language training initiatives aimed at the community.

Although the exact number of English teachers was not available, due to the heavy focus of first language literacy in all years of schooling, English teachers constitute a much larger population than foreign language teachers.

Thus, the main focus of the language expert was on working with the team of the centre, and the assumed effect of the language expert on the children was an indirect effect.

In most companies today, the focus of attitudes, language and behavior is on task excellence and achieving results.

We conclude that such results (1) argue for using intensive focused therapy of language impairment in neurodegenerative disorders, (2) may constitute a good model of brain plasticity in neuro-degenerative disorders in general, and (3) support theories of phonological processing emphasizing temporal features of the auditory signal.

Words for genitalia are the most common focus of preferred strong language, the kind used by default for Pinker's five functions.

Qualitative content analysis focuses on characteristics of language as communication, with attention to content or contextual meaning of text (Hsieh & Shannon, 2005).