They also found that kindergarten Spanish narrative performance predicted first-grade English narratives, suggesting cross-linguistic transfer at the discourse level (Uccelli & Paez, 2007).
The predilection was ingrained in him as a boy, he said, at the family dinner table, where his parents — his father was a patent lawyer, his mother a fourth-grade teacher — encouraged rapid-fire discourse; they also took him regularly to Broadway.
Even though it's above the current Grade 9 level of our political discourse.
For far too long, our perceptions have been negatively impacted by white dominated narratives that have plagued our grade school text books and public discourse about the Motherland.
Similar to the results for dyslexic children in senior grades, oral vocabulary, word semantics, and discourse skills remained to be significant predictors of Chinese reading comprehension in the final step (all βs > 0.15, all ps < 0.05).
Taking a socio-cultural approach, this qualitative study used critically oriented discourse analysis to examine: how did first-grade students at SIES appropriate multiple languages and discourses during classroom activities?
And he looks worse than ever, in part because the aged potentate in the foreground of the other election dominating Italian discourse looks so much better, at least if graded on realism and humility.
For each fuzzy set representing a fuzzy rule, the universe of discourse is defined as the summation of weighted membership grades of input linguistic terms that associate with the given fuzzy rule.
There was a handsome bartender at the Blue Whale, a former first-grade teacher in California, who listened eagerly to 5-year-old Ian's discourse on his favorite book, "Captain Underpants".
An outline of appraisal resources is presented as Figure 18 below, including types of attitude (affect, judgement and appreciation), grading systems (force and focus) and engagement systems for sourcing attitudes and managing heteroglossia in discourse.
