Sentence examples for patterns of difficulty from inspiring English sources

The 'proof of concept' function of this study makes recognition and comparison of overall patterns of difficulty more important than contrast between specific language features in isolation.

Table 1 illustrates the potential that close analysis of student error in completing cloze tasks holds for recognising the patterns of difficulty being experienced by particular groups of students in reading specific text.

A multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) was used to compare the patterns of difficulty experienced by these 114 Chinese undergraduates with that suggested for 127 younger monolingual English-speaking pupils and 679 pupils who indicated that they used English as an additional language or dialect (806 secondary school students in all).

Our subjects demonstrated two major patterns of difficulty.

The specific research questions were: What are the patterns of difficulty, attrition and course disruption amongst graduate entry medicine students?

Table 1 indicates that the three groups are all experiencing difficulty, although the pattern of difficulty varies somewhat.

The impact of the pattern of difficulty that emerged from the Chinese results is illustrated in a number of ways.

While the undergraduate students in this investigation had more difficulty with this passage than the linguistically diverse secondary group (EALD), the pattern of difficulty was not identical.

We conclude that TTMC items cannot be assumed to have a consistent pattern of difficulty by tier and that assessment developers and users need to consider how the tiers operate when administering TTMC items and interpreting results.

This planning stage also potentially allows for gathering information from the institution regarding the learner's performance on other rotations and whether a pattern of difficulty is isolated to the ED rotation or more pervasive through other rotations.

This approach is taken because we do not yet know if the cognitive skills associated with the tiers exhibit a consistent pattern of difficulty across all content (for example, that tier 1 is always easier than tier 2), or whether the tiers vary in difficulty according to content.