Being bullied at school seems to have featured as a particularly important variable for high-proficiency readers.
In the Chinese English bilinguals, the L2 proficiency split revealed smaller interference effects in L2 English for high-proficiency bilinguals than low-proficiency bilinguals.
For readers with high proficiency, all predictors explained 25% of the school-level variance and 8.5% of the total variance in the dependent variable.
The major limitation of this study is that a large proportion of variance in the dependent variable was not explained: only 8.50% explained variance in total for readers with low proficiency, and only 8.32% explained variance in total for readers with high proficiency.
For instance, in our experiment, the SIM factor has the greatest impact on the item difficulty for the high proficiency group of test takers while the same factor has the least impact on the low proficiency group.
At the school level, the likelihood of being readers with high proficiency was positive for school SES and negative for school bullying (i.e., significant coefficients γ01(2) and γ02(2)).
For foreign respondents, three groups were created: respondents with high proficiency (Native or Advanced) in both English and Japanese; respondents with high proficiency in Japanese and low proficiency (Basic or None) in English; and respondents with high proficiency in English and low proficiency in Japanese.
Incidentally, over the years, Clark has been a magnet for students fortunate to gain admission and graduate with high proficiency, distinguished achievement and academic honors.
TOEFL/IELTS scores (for international applicants): High proficiency in the English language is essential for admission to our graduate program.
For the 漳 Chiang dialect, high proficiency males had four categories for both environments, [Z], [L], [D], and [R] for the rounded, and [Z], [G], [L], and [D] for the unrounded.
And it went on like that for years, each time the high proficiency rates reflecting the grade she had taught.
