This information was elicited through the use of a Language Background Questionnaire, in which parents ranked the child's use and proficiency in English and a heritage language across a range of oral and written domains in the home, and through a standard assessment of receptive vocabulary.
Those who are accepted exhibit a high level of understanding and proficiency in their field, a broad humanistic background, and the potential to excel in the film arts.
The waka, consisting of 31 syllables, was an indispensable part of the daily lives of the aristocracy, and proficiency in verse making was counted an essential accomplishment for a courtier.
Language history and proficiency in both languages were assessed by a detailed questionnaire that asked subjects to rate on a scale from 1 10 their language abilities for speaking, understanding, and reading, and to indicate the sources/methods that contributed to learning each language (adapted from [21]).
The program requires passing a stringent entrance exam, and proficiency in three languages.
Although there is a body of literature focusing on populations with unique needs in times of disaster, the findings presented here offer a new perspective by focusing on language proficiency, and how proficiency in a local language, or lack thereof, may affect disaster information gathering behavior and needs, through an investigation conducted after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.
After all, it's said that it takes a lifetime to learn your mother tongue, and the proficiency in a foreign language necessary for doing any type of translation work undoubtedly requires an extended period of study and contact with the language, preferably in the relevant country.
Although some researchers (e.g., Farhady, 1983;Lee, 1985;Sadeghi 2003) have claimed that it still is not clear what a cloze test does, others have continued to compare close test results with other language-related constructs such as reading and language proficiency in a hope to understand what cloze measures, based on how it correlates with other language-related constructs.
It might sit on a list with writing a book, traveling the world and deepening proficiency in a hobby.
He even thanked us for insisting that he practice speaking Standard English grammar and develop proficiency in a foreign language.
