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language requirement

language requirement

1 3.4
A rule that students or workers must show skill in a language
  • noun
  • /ˈlæŋɡwɪdʒ rɪˈkwaɪərmənt/
  • Formal
translation icon : requisito de idioma
  • Michael didn't speak much French, having forgotten most of what he'd learned as part of his Ph.D. language requirement.
  • a foreign language requirement

Examples

  • The university's language requirement ensures that all students demonstrate proficiency in a second language before graduation.

  • However, applicants who do not know ASL must be willing to learn, and eventually must satisfy the language requirements specified in the university's Faculty Guidelines.

    Blog text (26)
  • What are the English language requirements?

    Academic text (1990)
  • Further, the foreign language requirement would also be closely tied to the major area.

    Academic text (1990)
  • The first semester, I took Beginning Spanish 1000 to fulfill a foreign language requirement.

    Blog text (17)
  • I urge you, President Ballynure, to retain the language requirement.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • I know perfectly well that most of them are there because their fathers insisted or because fewer years of Latin are necessary to fulfill the language requirement than those of French or Spanish.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • For little other reason than I'm an ornery sort of person, I decided to take Mandarin Chinese to fulfill my foreign language requirement.

    Blog text (28)
  • The drop during the spring semester in both overall student visits as well as visits by students enrolled in the language curriculum reflects a drop in enrollment in language classes due to the elimination of a language requirement for graduation by the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences.

    Academic text (1994)
  • The passage from Catullus must surely move the heart of Oreanna, for how can she not be moved—she who is only nineteen and has already completed all of her language requirements for the graduate program in Comparative Literature, all except Latin.

    Fiction book (1991)

Antonyms

153 3.6

Ability to change plans or actions easily to fit new situations

Surface Forms

Morphology

language + requirement

The phrase is directly compositional: a 'requirement' concerning 'language' is exactly what the noun phrase states. This X + requirement pattern is common and cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the intended meaning.

Etymology

The noun language requirement comes from schools and jobs that make people learn a language before they can meet a requirement to graduate or start work. Imagine a student who cannot get a diploma until they pass a language class; that's why it means an official 'rule' that you must show language 'skill'.