Sentence examples for language aptitude from inspiring English sources
Forty-nine candidates were invited back for a second round of interviews as well as language aptitude tests, psychological evaluations and mechanical skills assessments.
Under the proposals, applicants would have 45 minutes to write an essay and would also take a "thinking skills" test and a "language aptitude" test.
In a series of experiments, Dr. Skotko led a team from Duke University and M.I.T. who used crosswords to test Mr. Molaison's language aptitude, as well as his capacity to learn new facts.
After enlisting in the Army, on a whim she took a language aptitude test that changed her life.
The High Level Language Aptitude Battery (Hi-Lab) measures the key skills for language acquisition: Working memory, associative memory and implicit learning.
Language aptitude is the other determinant of language achievement, among other support and other factors, which are assumed to involve instrumental motives.
In the former case, which is common in the context of a language or aptitude test, the quality of the correct selection is more significant than the content imbedded within the erroneous answers; each selection apart from the correct one is equally erroneous, and an explanation of the correct choice is sufficient.
"Differences between children and adults are a matter of skill in standardizing language," not overall aptitude, says cognitive scientist Daniel Slobin of the University of California, Berkeley.
The SCQ is used to assess the social interactions, language and communication aptitude, and stereotyped and repetitive behaviors of children with an autism spectrum disorder [ 80].
In New York, for example, of those making appointments for job interviews, 25 to 30percentt do not show up, and 50 to 60percentt of those who do lack the English language skills or the aptitude for the job, she said.
"I had four years of first-year French in high school," she said, adding that her mother, a French teacher, seemed to think her daughter had no aptitude for language.
