Sentence examples for lower proficiency from inspiring English sources

Along with Germany, Italy, Poland and the United States, the children of parents with low levels of education in England have "significantly lower proficiency than those whose parents have higher levels of education".

According to the OECD (2013a), these respondents tended to have lower proficiency levels.

As expected, compared to native speakers our EFL learners reached lower proficiency levels on the PISA scale.

A major difference among higher and lower proficiency levels can be found in the interactional and managing interaction functions.

Learners with individualistic learning styles generally achieved lower proficiency test and participation scores than those with styles suited to in-class interaction.

This suggests that for the test takers with lower proficiency, RPD impacts on the item difficulty, in contrast to the other two groups.

Furthermore, SYN was more attractive than PARA, especially for the middle- and lower-proficiency learners.

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.

There was a significant difference between the two groups (t = -3.39, df = 161, p < .001), such that those at lower initial proficiency made greater gains (0.40) compared to those at higher initial proficiency (0.02).

Specifically, students with lower writing proficiency tend to receive higher scores under analytic scoring while students with higher proficiency score higher under holistic scoring.

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.