Mr. Levy recommended that all the city's 32 community school districts and its high schools set up programs with the goal of having students who do not speak English as their native language develop English proficiency in three years.
In order to compare effects of language proficiency, native and non-native speakers of the Dutch language, two separate groups were selected.
To this end, travel information was presented to two different groups of participants with respect to language proficiency (natives and non-natives) in three different ways, through popular nomadic systems, a PDA, a mobile phone SMS and a mobile phone plugged in a car audio system, in two kinds of traffic conditions (calm and dense).
Section 203 of the act requires ballots, forms, pamphlets and signs to be translated wherever 5 percent of the local population — or more than 10,000 voting-age citizens — speak the same native language and have limited proficiency in English.
Learners' parameter L (Who) shows their gender (L g ), age (L a ), native language (L n ), and Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) level (L l ).
In his account of language proficiency in native speakers and non-native speakers, Hulstijn (2011) claims that second or foreign language learners can reach the same level of higher language cognition (HLC) as native speakers.
Possible covariates were sex, study year (preclinical = 1st to 3rd vs. clinical = 4th to 6th), marital status (married or engaged vs. others), language proficiency in English (native vs. non-native) and in the local language (some vs. poor), and social support from family and significant others.
However, we included non-native speaking immigrants with sufficient language proficiency.
Proficiency in the native language and provision of education for local health-care workers are essential for conducting a successful STMM.
Second, our findings suggest proficiency in the native language of the target area is essential for the improvement of health care.
