Sentence examples for equivalent proficiency from inspiring English sources

The instrument has been piloted with tertiary EFL learners in Singapore, and has also been tested extensively in Australia on students who were newly arrived in that country, and thus had EFL equivalent proficiency at the time of testing.

Phonological awareness and rapid naming were similarly related to fluency in reading all forms of script when equivalent proficiencies in reading of these scripts were achieved.

Synergy effects are derived from other DAAD initiatives, including the promotion of scholarships, German language programs (with the objective of introducing a TOEFL-test equivalent for proficiency in German as a foreign language), and guest professor programs.

The non-preferred hand for experimental group subjects also reached a level of proficiency equivalent to the preferred hand for work-related tasks.

Arab students have been shown to encounter greater difficulty with English spelling and word processing than proficiency equivalent ESL learners from other L1 backgrounds.

Research by Fender (2003; 2008) and Ryan & Meara (1991) indicates that Arab L1 users experience greater difficulty than proficiency equivalent ESL learners generally in reading tasks and in isolated word recognition tasks.

Al-Amrani (2009) found that current Omani EFL university students are reluctant readers who use less effective bottom-up reading strategies than proficiency equivalent non-Omani EFL student peers.

Operators for these studies were required to undergo training procedures to demonstrate proficiency, equivalent to what will be used to train users in molecular pathology laboratories for the decentralized test.

An air of defensiveness hangs over this enterprise, which opens with a hide-and-seek Ornette Coleman composition, "Questions and Answers," and later tackles John Coltrane's "Giant Steps," the jazz equivalent of a standardized proficiency test.

Thus, they were considered equivalent in their English proficiency.

In essence, Ericsson's theory suggests that sufficient practice in a particular skill can take anyone to a proficiency level equivalent to that of a top classical musician.