Sentence examples for ability of speaking from inspiring English sources

He is a master story-teller who has an exceptional ability of speaking to each listener personally.

In his autobiography, Moreno González said that as a child he believed he had the superhuman ability of speaking telepathically with animals like Kalimán did in the comics.

The collection reflects "Heaney's will (and ability) to speak of many kinds of experience to many kinds of reader," Langdon Hammer wrote in the Book Review in 2001.

Hearing ability is essential for normal speech development, however the precise mechanisms linking auditory input and the improvement of speaking ability remain poorly understood.

It is interesting to note that the paper on listening identified nine separate levels of listening ability (which, unsurprisingly, matched the number of levels in the proposed CSE), the paper on speaking test validation identified only six levels of speaking ability and the paper on the writing scales found only three levels of writing ability.

Enough time is not given to various exercises and opportunities for the improvement of speaking ability.

Overall, each of these tasks contributes to the construct of speaking ability envisaged at the IEP discussed in this study.

Intensive English programs (IEPs) strive to make certain that international students have sufficient levels of speaking ability, which is typically assessed through a combination of different tasks.

Thus, a single dimension of speaking ability could not be constructed from the data combined from the tape and live versions.

While various frameworks of speaking ability have been proposed for specific situations (see Luoma, 2004), second language researchers have generally relied on defining speaking by its features, functions, and conditions.

This begs the question of whether collaboration and task completion should be assessed in the broader scope of second language proficiency, particularly as part of speaking ability (see Ducasse & Brown, 2009).