Sentence examples for weak language skills from inspiring English sources

With my weak language skills, I had no one to talk to.

"Students arrive without being able to do basic arithmetic or with weak language skills," he says.

First, human capital acquired abroad may not be entirely transferable to the host economy (Friedberg, 2000), possibly because immigrants have weak language skills that reduce their productivity (Bleakley and Chin, 2004).

Consistent with this notion, studies of the functional organisation of language in SLI suggest weak language skills are associated with departures from the normal pattern of left-hemisphere specialisation for language.

The majority of late talkers identified in the preschool period tend to move into the normal range by school age [ 14- 18] but continue to have significantly weaker language skills than peers with similar backgrounds.

Some say the practice is blatant cheating, while others argue that it can help students with weak English language skills and dyslexia.

For my junior year abroad from my undergraduate alma mater of Northwestern, I chose the University of Sussex in Falmer, England in part because of my weak foreign language skills (though the London new wave and post-punk scene was another un-mentioned draw).

One explanation for this may be that students from minority backgrounds, particularly those with weaker English language skills, may perceive academic life to be more stressful and feel less able to cope with academic expectations compared with other students (Wan et al. 1992).

Dequalification develops out of a lack of information about the recognition of qualifications, combined with weak networks, insufficient language skills and a low demand in certain high-skilled professions, contributing to their vulnerability.

Britain is trapped in a "vicious circle of monolingualism" as a weak supply of language skills pushes down demand, said the study, though it suggested the additional languages spoken by ethnic-minority British schoolchildren would be a valuable source of skills if properly developed.

Schools were ordered to use Chinese as the main language of instruction, which led to layoffs of Tibetan teachers with weak Chinese-language skills.