Sentence examples for primary language was from inspiring English sources

The report released yesterday surveyed 915 parents whose primary language was not English and 55 students from immigrant families.

The boy, whose primary language was Spanish, had some trouble with investigators' questions; his lawyers say he equated the term sex with kissing, although prosecutors say that he understood what investigators were asking.

Felix R. Vazquez, the superintendent of District 32, said the district's relatively high spending on aides stemmed from its difficulty in recruiting experienced teachers and from its higher-than-average population of students whose primary language was not English.

Bakassi frequently replaced Western pop-culture references with Nigerian ones, striking a clip from "Harry Potter" in favor of a clip from a Nollywood movie, and simplifying wordplay for viewers whose primary language was not English.

Sarts whose primary language was Persian preserved the entire Persian literary heritage of Iran and by the 18th century were deeply involved in the literary movement known as the Indian school (Sabk-i Hindī).

Mr. Lansky, 46, has been devoting his life to preserving Yiddish books since 1979 when, as a graduate student at McGill University in Montreal, he realized that a once-vibrant literature important to understanding the Jewish experience was being thrown into trash bins as the last generation of people who spoke Yiddish as their primary language was dying out.

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That is the situation of the quarter-million or more deaf people in North America whose primary language is American Sign Language.

Jennings is comfortable because he has three American teammates, and the team's primary language is English.

She'd brought snacks for Jessica, and there was a translator on hand for her mother, whose primary language is Haitian Creole.

It would ignore the needs of students whose primary language is not English and who fail because they lack literacy skills.