Sentence examples for linguistic mastery from inspiring English sources

That linguistic mastery factored in at all is a testament to the growing clout of the Hispanic electorate.

While Werther's vehement, Hamletesque contemplation of nature, religion and the self anticipates the linguistic mastery of Goethe's later play Faust, the author's struggle to shed a troubled past often renders the novella far from sublime.

Some people associate linguistic mastery with ability to dream in another tongue; I equate fitting in with the ability to speak Chinese the way my authentically American friends do, stressing all the wrong syllables and planting false tones where there are none.

Here, Ford is clearly writing within the range and character of his deepest sympathies — in this case, from the point of view of an abandoned 15-year-old boy — and he's doing it with a level of linguistic mastery that is rivaled by few, if any, in American letters today.

Rather, writing an academic text involves a complex orchestration of ideas and voices while demanding a linguistic mastery to clearly identify ownership(s) of such ideas and words.

Teachers need to adopt research based methods of L2 teaching since research based methods have been successful in helping L2 learners produce writing that is a satisfactory level of linguistic proficiency and mastery of academic writing.

In an impressively comprehensive study, Knecht et al. (2000) compared 264 individuals with left hemisphere language, 31 with bilateral language and 31 with right hemisphere language, as assessed by fTCD, on tests of academic achievement, artistic talent, verbal fluency, intelligence, speed of linguistic processing and mastery of foreign languages.

According to Bernstein et al. ([2010], p. 360), of the four diagnostic scores, Sentence Mastery and Vocabulary measure the linguistic content of the response, and Fluency and Pronunciation measure the manner in which the response is said.

There are hard problems along the way, but their solution brings mastery of recursive, functional, and meta-linguistic abstractions, developing skills in the underlying creative programming in Lisp.

The early 20th century logic-inspired reformation recently began to influence the interpretation of the Zhuangzi and the Xunzi in the west, largely inspired by Angus Graham who had observed that both ancient texts demonstrated a mastery of the technical vocabulary of Mohist linguistic theory.

As more and more superficially ambitious productions reach our screens, billed as serious fare taking on critical issues of history and society, the gap between technical and artistic mastery on one hand, and intellectual and linguistic depth on the other, has widened considerably.