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A corollary to this view (and a core principle of task-based instruction) is that language is best acquired through such life-like language exchanges.
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Holographic special effects can be added in post production to make a life-like person beam into the room, Star Trek style, or have their product appear and spin above their head at the click of their fingers.
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Which in turn could cause a little more life-like presentation.
All The Trimmings 2009
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On the other hand, there also seems to be a good case for arguing that only life-like language use can tap into the cognitive and affective factors that both motivate and nurture language acquisition.
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Which in turn could cause a little more life-like presentation.
All The Trimmings 2009
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Let's see ... pornography has been strictly and totally off limits for kids since forever, but letting them virtually hack other people, monsters, and aliens to bloody shreds in exquisite, life-like detail and with the most vicious weapons imaginable is (ho hum) tolerated, if not exactly condoned?
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We will turn those ideas into life-like, high-definition videos and computer animations.
William S. Becker: Let's Talk About the Future We Want William S. Becker 2011
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We will turn those ideas into life-like, high-definition videos and computer animations.
William S. Becker: Let's Talk About the Future We Want William S. Becker 2011
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So they were the ones who bought up all those tepid, life-like toy hamsters at X-Mas time.
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One is a rare, 19th-century, eight-fold paper screen with life-like storks proudly parading across the facade (around €200,000); the other, a 17th-century, glowing, six-fold screen with a golden background and flying birds (around €60,000).
Where the Action Is Margaret Studer 2011
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