Sentence examples for language literacy from inspiring English sources

Remote area allowance: single $18.20 a fortnight Language literacy and numeracy supplement: $20.80 a fortnight.

The intimate relations between language, literacy, and specialized bodies of knowledge have contributed to the identification of literacy with schooling.

Ruhl's mother, Kathleen, who now holds a Ph.D. in Language, Literacy, and Rhetoric, from the University of Illinois, added to the family's sense of caprice.

"It doesn't make kids smarter," said Ellen Bialystok, a professor of psychology at York University in Toronto and the author of "Bilingualism in Development: Language, Literacy and Cognition".

An article in August 2010 quoted Ellen Bialystok, a noted neuroscientist and the author of "Bilingualism in Development: Language, Literacy and Cognition," stating bluntly that bilingualism "doesn't make kids smarter".

"English language literacy is just 10percentt in India," he added.

The first was the use of a test or device to discourage voters, like the English-language literacy test New York had adopted in 1921.

In 1921, for example, New York State adopted an English-language literacy requirement for voters that remained in force (and was enforced) for decades.

Similarly, Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx were covered because of a New York State English-language literacy test that disenfranchised tens of thousands of Puerto Rico-born voters in those boroughs prior to the passage of the V.R.A.

The remaining areas, Discovery of the World, Language and Literacy, and Numeracy, tend to be regarded as academic because they relate to the subjects of Science, Language/Literacy, and Mathematics from primary school onwards.

Thus, an attention to teaching language/literacy skills entails the recognition of the context in which language/literacy skills are used and the language features at discourse level.