Sentence examples for modest proficiency from inspiring English sources

Beyond that, measuring foreign travel, the ownership of a passport or even modest proficiency in a foreign language cannot serve as an indicator of how any member of Congress is likely to vote when called upon to pass judgment on some issue of foreign or national security.

For high school sophomores who took the Connecticut Academic Performance Test, another measure of academic achievement under No Child Left Behind, the results showed modest improvements at the "proficiency" level in math, reading and writing this year.

If No Child Left Behind is renewed, it must include a directive and sufficient federal appropriations to the Department of Education to commission more large-scale, complex interventions that demonstrate accelerating academic gains in well-defined proficiency beyond current modest trends.

Furthermore, L2 linguistic knowledge makes a modest contribution to L2 listening proficiency through reducing L2 listening anxiety.

But that was the only such moment in the set, which otherwise infused proficiency and camaraderie with a modest dash of discovery.

As typified by EGFR-targeted therapies for metastatic CRC (e.g.: panitumumab and cetuximab), this modest response is attributed to the innate and acquired proficiency of cancer cells to escape EGFR inhibition by engaging alternative oncogenic signals [ 2, 3, 52].

Ms. Mazzoni said California might suggest a separate national measure that all 50 states would use to determine student progress, with proficiency set at a commonly agreed -- and more modest -- level.

The modest to moderate significant linear correlations between the two types of proficiency measures in our study suggests that our subjects had a reasonable self-perception of their ability to use the English language.

There were modest to moderate significant linear correlations between the average English test score at enrollment and the self-reported level of English proficiency, both in reading (r = 0.548; p < 0.001), writing (r = 0.392; p = 0.009) and total self-ratings (r = 0.351, p =0.019).

With proficiency comes progress.

Proficiency engenders confidence.