Sentence examples for receptive English from inspiring English sources

Specifically, in receptive English language, the entire sample scores (M = 77.7) put the children in the sixth percentile as compared to the norming sample (Dunn and Dunn 2007) and the Spanish-speaking subgroup (M = 63.7) in the first percentile (Dunn and Dunn 2007).

27 Interestingly, a national survey of development in four to five year olds found left- and particularly mixed-handers performed significantly worse than right-handers on tests of general cognitive ability (GCA) and receptive English skills, but were unimpaired on the Peabody Picture Vocabulary test and tests of expressive English.

The PPVT-4, measuring receptive oral English language development, was selected for its recognition and popularity in the field, the focus on early oral language, ability to inform instructional decisions for children learning English, and the easy early level high frequency words particularly designed for English language learners.

The current study investigates the effect of professional development in indirect language stimulation (ILS) techniques for two randomly assigned Head Start teachers at one early childhood center on the expressive and receptive oral English language development of the 4-year-old children in their classrooms.

ELL students who received the intervention significantly outperformed ELL students in the control groups on English receptive and expressive vocabulary.

One of the first scientists to use the term receptive field was English physiologist Sir Charles Scott Sherrington, who in 1906 incorporated it into his discussion of the scratch reflex in dogs.

Overall, this research serves as a pilot study of the effectiveness of professional development regarding language stimulation techniques for Head Start teachers on the receptive and expressive English language development of their preschool children.

This means that they are quite nervous when they initially engage in classroom speaking tasks, but due to their reasonably large receptive knowledge of English, once they begin speaking they are able to make large gains in a relatively short period.

English hostesses provide attractive and receptive male servants for him; English conversational partners feed his fascination with overt homosexuals like Oscar Wilde and John Addington Symonds.

The Hungarian Enlightenment was more receptive to French and English ideas than it was productive of original developments.

That retro Geordie accent on Channel 4's original show was thus updated for a Nigerian audience, who were presumed receptive to his posh English.