Sentence examples for Verbal competence from inspiring English sources

Verbal competence As a control measure, we used the subtest 'Similarities' from the Dutch translation of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale Revised (Wechsler, 1981).

The stories are organized chronologically by the age of the teller, revealing the progression of verbal competence and the gradual emergence of staging and plot organization.

Mr. McCarthy has been dogged over the last week with questions about his verbal competence, his conservative credentials and his ability to fuse a group of members that may in fact defy unification.

Cognitive psychologists agree that early childhood language learning (ages 2 to 10) is critical to later verbal competence, not just because of the remarkable linguistic plasticity of young minds, but also because of the so-called Matthew Effect.

This measure was also included to exclude persons with very low verbal competence.

The information available prior to selection may be inadequate and there might be a risk that the participants are selected too much on grounds of verbal competence.

The percentage of the story retained at 30 min was used as an indicator of verbal memory competence.

She had a mild cognitive impairment (WPPSI) without significant differences between verbal and performance competences.

Receptive techniques in music therapy involve verbal and elaborative competences that a PWD might, unfortunately, have lost.

Secretary Paige concluded that while states' licensing of teachers should require more verbal and subject-matter competence, "burdensome education requirements" should be eliminated.

The present article aims to evaluate the effects of a program to enhance proficiency in linguistic competence in verbal aptitude, inductive reasoning, academic performance, self-efficiency in linguistic intelligence and linguistic competence.