Sentence examples for of the first language from inspiring English sources

This week, by a neat coincidence, has seen the publication of papers addressing both of these conundrums.Quentin Atkinson, of the University of Auckland, in New Zealand, has been looking at the evolutionary issue, trying to locate the birthplace of the first language.

Students then had to make conversation for 10 min, without any use of the first language.

The experience of the first edition of the first language MOOC in Spain, a course on Professional English undertaken by the authors, and the design of its second edition on the basis of such experience are presented.

In both cases, the reforms were motivated by both instrumental and intrinsic reasons; the fundamental value of the first language for learning a second language and for the development of the child's self-identity, respectively.

Consequently, in our context, immigration, or even a measure of the first language spoken, is a weak proxy for language proficiency, and these studies likely introduce measurement error as a measure of peer language by using measures of immigration rather than language proficiency.

Study a contrastive analysis of the first language and the target language.

The choice of language is based on the first language of members of the research group.

In parliament, nationalists briefly tried to abolish a law allowing the official use of Russian, the first language of many in the 46 million population, and of a majority in the eastern regions.

This chapter explores the machine independent microprogramming language (MIMOLA), which is one of the first languages specifically designed for synthesis and not just for simulation.

"It's a few lines of Perl script, the first language I learned.

One of our four translations represented the first language of the artist in 31/37 artists, second language in 5/37 artists, and third language in 1/37.