"oral proficiency" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to an individual's ability to communicate effectively and fluently in spoken language. Example: The job posting requires strong written and oral proficiency in both English and Spanish.
Berlitz Jr. programs adhere to a school's policy for assessing students, which might include a final exam or an oral proficiency assessment, Ms. Roach said.
For six or seven years, Duke, in Durham, N.C., has required its candidates for graduate teaching assignments to take an oral proficiency exam, Dr. DeNeef said.
Another extension of this lesson might emphasize English oral proficiency by inviting students to add to their paragraphs after they have shared with a partner.
This year, for the first time, Princeton required incoming graduate students from foreign countries to pass an oral proficiency exam in English, before permitting them to teach this fall.
Although Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences does not require an oral proficiency test, the school started a program of intensive English training and cultural orientation last summer for its international students, according to Sally Baker, director of communications for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
Mr. Chwat, 57, who grew up in Brooklyn and lives in Great Neck, N.Y., said that public speaking used to be part of the public-school curriculum and that passing a test in oral proficiency was once a requirement to graduate from the city's public colleges.
English VIQ and oral language proficiency predicted both English and Spanish word reading, but Spanish VIQ and oral language proficiency did not predict English word reading.
With a look at the oral communicative proficiency, the present study seeks to probe the Iranian EFL learners' ingress to their innate system, and intends to come to an understanding of the state of their interlanguage development.
In 2015, the Ministry of Education launched a new program aimed at improving the oral Hebrew proficiency of Arabic-speaking children from the kindergarten stage, with the emphasis on improving the pupils' competence in Hebrew.
In other words, the result provides evidence that the two SBA task types could be used to complement each other in measuring the same construct of oral language proficiency as they claim to measure.
But in Pakistan apart from external constraints teachers do not attain sufficient oral English proficiency during teacher education program (Bilal et al.,2013; Karim,20122011; Sarwar et al.,2012; Tariq et al.2013).2013
