The concept of fluency is originally associated with the ability to express oneself in both spoken and written language and to move effortlessly between the two representations.
In particular, context-aware systems which allow learners' progress to be sensed within and across an activity, enable instructed language learning to move beyond the traditional confines of the classroom walls.
While there are a few cases of language revival, such as Czech, Gaelic, Hebrew and Navajo, generally languages tend to move in one direction on the spectrum from thriving through endangered to extinct.
Among the first Algonquian-language speakers to move westward from timberland to open grassland, the Blackfoot probably migrated on foot using wooden travois drawn by dogs to transport their goods.
Historian Thomas Ricks Lindley states: "In a time when there were only two methods of communication, speech and the written word, Travis used language to emotionally move the people.
A timer was programmed in the XVR scripting language to smoothly move for 20 s seconds the virtual character's arm to the left by a medial rotation around the shoulder 180 s after the start of the experiment.
Anyone who believes in the tangibility of language will want to move in.
The monkeys' intentions are detected by sensors, translated into machine language and used to move the arm.
Staff will describe the study using a standard recruitment script and if women are interested in hearing more about the study and amenable to being screened, staff will administer a short screening questionnaire to assess eligibility (e.g., age, pregnancy status, status of MIL, language fluency, plans to move out of the community).
Now if language is, in this way, the product of communion with others then this living, "flexible" language allows us all to move outward from the norms and values of our own particular society until we are able to embrace the whole world past and present.
