"The history of immigration has shown a high degree of language integration over time.
This is perhaps because the students use a more colloquial style, and, as Halliday (1989) has pointed out, colloquial language is characterized for having a generally higher degree of grammatical intricacy than specialized language.
However, this does not seem justified historically for ASL and Auslan, and it is likely that this resemblance is due to the higher degree of iconicity in signed languages in general, as well as contact with English.
Although the notion of system of a particular language itself cannot ever be considered to be fully decontextualized, since it has been shaped by the culture of the language users, it involves a higher degree of decontextualization than a particular instance of language.
The CEFR was developed to achieve a higher degree of transparency and coherence in language learning and teaching in Europe.
PLEASE NOTE: Successful participation in the course presumes a high degree of English language skills, written and spoken.
Therefore, DPT may represent a higher degree of difficulty for children with BECTS considering evidence pointing to the existence of language impairment in this population due to the overlap of cortical language areas with epileptic activity [ 10].
Higher degree of difficulty for sure.
In fact, political discussions require a higher degree of fluency than what is needed for business transactions or tourism: "political communication has a large ritualistic component, and these ritualized forms of communication are typically language-specific.
Separate groups of word-lists for phonological processing were created for each session by modifying previously used stimuli (McDermott et al. 2003), which have demonstrated robust activation of phonological language areas, and revealed a high degree of functional connectivity between language areas in healthy controls (Tivarus et al. 2008).
