"I really think that's the key to proficiency".
For this wave, it was key for corporate proficiency to partner with a strong knowledge platform in order to develop successful products for export.
Individualized instruction was designed with three key elements, namely proficiency level grouping, individualized instructional strategies and materials, and individualized feedback.
The PIAAC data provide a better understanding of the distribution of those key skills and proficiencies at both national and international levels.
That was the key role that the proficiency tests played in Saudi Arabia.
Formulaic sequences comprise a large body of language and their mastery is supposed to be a key determiner of language proficiency.
Since companies today source everything where best available and sell where best markets exist, it stands to reason that worldsourced business functions should be located solely on the basis of finding the most attractive people, skills, proximity to key markets, infrastructure, language proficiency, information technology capabilities, costs and facilities.
The ubiquity of formulaic sequences in language indicates that their mastery is a key determiner of language proficiency (Wray & Perkins, 2000; Bybee, 2002; Wray, 2002; Biber et al., 2004; DeCock, 2004; Wray, 2008; Barfield & Gyllstad, 2009; McGuire, 2009; Schmitt, 2010; Meunier, 2012).
Our analysis revealed a number of compelling findings - including a clear link between English proficiency and key economic indicators like Gross National Income (GNI), Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and the Human Development Index (HDI).
The term "proficiency" is key because the federal No Child Left Behind law mandates that 100percentt of students must be "proficient" under state standards by 2014 -- a goal that has been universally described as impossible to reach.
