The GLT provides students the opportunity to learn through teaching, share MIT's approach around the world, hone language skills, and deepen their understanding of another culture.
While Americans, too, study at these outposts to hone language skills and experience another culture, most students are foreigners who couldn't or didn't want to travel to the United States.
Educators feared that all courses below university level might be ruled off limits to overseas students, even though between 40% and 50% of foreigners at British universities had taken an earlier course in Britain, usually to hone language or study skills.
One thinks of Hemingway in Paris, honing language to a fresh starkness, and Hemingway had read Babel, as he stated in a 1936 letter to Ivan Kashkin: "Babel I know ever since his first stories were translated in French and the Red Cavalry came out.
This high level of academic work requires exquisitely honed language skills, as well as the ability to analyze and process information at a level appropriate for original research.
Play — especially the let's-pretend, dramatic sort — is how kids develop higher-level thinking, hone their language and social skills, cultivate empathy.
Some classes come to develops skills in visual analysis or to study works that offer insight into cultural context, while others learn about materials and technique or hone their language skills.
But problems immediately cropped up after the cabinet approved the draft law and, in what seemed to be a perfunctory step, it went to a council that was supposed to hone the language to be sure it complied with Iraqi legal conventions.
Drawing on the resources of Amman and Paris, it allows students to hone their language skills while being exposed to the most recent developments in the scholarship on the Middle East and North Africa, and to cultural products from the region including cinema, art, music, urban planning and architecture.
It is an opportunity for growth and to learn how to find a "yes". It helps me hone my language and always have answers at the ready.
There are also theatre, arts and crafts exhibitions, a literature pavilion, an area for Welsh learners to hone their language skills (Maes D), as well as trade stands and exhibitors.
