Sentence examples for lower English proficiency from inspiring English sources

Any research that demonstrated that language support in universities was not effective enough to justify lower English proficiency admission requirements would threaten a sizeable portion of university funds.

Also, compared with stayers, return migrants tend to be illegal migrants, have lower English proficiency, travel before IRCA, and live in Mexican communities which are closer to their destinations.

Owing to the strict ability grouping system in the private schools, the teachers from these said that they had spent a large amount of time on training basic grammatical knowledge and reading skills to students with lower English proficiency, and that this had left no time for listening instruction.

This echoes Tamai's (2002) study results on the effect of shadowing on listening skills among Japanese EFL learners, that shadowing was more effective for students with lower English proficiency than for those with higher proficiency, which is considered to be due to there being more room for improvement.

However, it suggests that amongst Hispanic groups a lower proportion of English proficiency was associated with lower odds of advanced disease.

In view of this, the English graduation benchmark requirement can be considered a useful measure to motivate students to learn, especially for those who are at a lower level of English proficiency.

This suggests that students with a lower level of English proficiency are more sensitive to the pressure from the graduation requirement and more likely to experience an increased level of anxiety when taking the test.

In this regard, we suggest that schools provide relevant resources to help students, especially those students with lower levels of English proficiency, to reduce their test anxiety, for example, inviting the testing organization behind the GEPT to provide more information about how to prepare for the test or give mock tests.

They speculated that the sampled students tend to show a stronger learning motivation and more autonomous learning behavior than the university students who have lower levels of English proficiency; thus, their attitudes towards the graduation benchmark policy are also more positive and optimistic.

Lower rates of English proficiency contribute to undercounting in the census as well.

Results showed late-stage colorectal cancer diagnosis was predicted by a greater proportion of recent immigrants living in a neighborhood, lower proportion of limited English proficiency in the neighborhood (for Hispanics), and median household income of the neighborhood (for Asians).