Sentence examples for less proficiency than from inspiring English sources

The equivalency exam probably requires less proficiency than a diploma, even after it was toughened this year.

The street, with its civil and political forces, is able to guide the process of transition to democracy with no less proficiency than the other peoples in the region who have already got rid of their regimes.

Without this rest, you may become fatigued, working more slowly or with less proficiency.

This would be especially interesting for the case of Taiwan Min because speaker gender generally covaries with language proficiency and females tend to be less proficient in Min than males (Huang and Fon 2007).

Chenoweth and Hayes (2001) reported that L2 learners with higher proficiency produced more fluent language than less proficient learners; thus, pre-task planning might induce L2 learners to compensate for lack of L2 proficiency in the case of fluency.

We chose to focus on IS proficiency because users with greater IS proficiency tend to use those systems more effectively and efficiently than users who are less proficient [ 39, 40].

Our finding that order of acquisition is less relevant than proficiency in determining the amount of right hemisphere and posterior activity during early encoding and especially late semantic processing stages is important because it shows that models such as Kroll and colleagues' RHM [12] must include mechanisms to account for changes in language dominance.

The study's finding that reading attitude was a significant predictor of Hong Kong SAR Grade 4 students being readers with high proficiency but not of readers with low proficiency suggests that reading attitude may play a less important role in accounting for the reading failure of readers with low proficiency than is commonly assumed.

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It may also be the case that proficiency affects executive control abilities within bilingual groups, such that high-proficiency bilinguals show better cognitive control, and therefore less interference, than low-proficiency bilinguals.

Only 20percentt of low-income eighth-graders were proficient in math -- less than half the proficiency rate of more advantaged students.