Sentence examples for measures of language from inspiring English sources
At the same time, self-reported measures of language proficiency are subject to measurement error, an issue that has drawn the attention of researchers (Dustmann and van Soest 2002, 2004; Bleakley and Chin 2004).
Measures of language proficiency are meant to be a meta language shared by language teachers, learners and assessors.
Furthermore, self-perceived language proficiency and the length of previous language study are effective alternative measures of language proficiency.
These findings suggest that along with scores on commercial language proficiency tests, other measures of language proficiency may be useful for predictive purposes.
More importantly, measures of language proficiency can have powerful political, economic, cultural, educational and social influences on virtually every aspect of life.
For various political, social, cultural and economic reasons, however, different measures of language proficiency have been developed in different parts of the world.
We assess the impact of the program on students having difficulty learning to read using four different measures of language and reading ability.
In the negotiations leading to Tuesday's passage of a Security Council resolution on Iraq, Russia pressed for inclusion in the measure of language promising to reinvigorate the United Nations inspectors, but the final version simply pledged to "revisit" their mandate.
Like two worlds colliding... .. There's a catch in his voice discussing Nelson, a measuring of language, a desire not to slate the town where his parents still live, but not to don rose-tinted lenses either for a place where horizons were limited, opportunities more so, and racism "absolutely everywhere".
The outcome was that ELTS was regarded as a more valid measure of language proficiency and superior to its criterion measures.
Our estimates suggest that while use of the computer program may improve some aspects of students' language skills, it does not appear that these gains translate into a broader measure of language acquisition or into actual readings skills.
