ManyUScollege admissions require proof you have a sufficient level of English. This proficiency is usually proved by taking anEnglish language test, such as the SAT, ACT or the TOEFL. If you need an English proficiency test, a number of universities in the US and theUKa...
19 Second, trained physician-reviewer pairs, blinded to parents’ language comfort and other variables, independently reviewed and categorized suspected errors and adverse events as adverse events, nonharmful errors (eg, dosing error with no clinical consequence), or exclusions (eg, quality issue ...
The first group’s preliminary design included a slightly reworked version of the IELTS rubric, where the peer-reviewer could give a numerical score and provide open-ended comments under each dimension. Overwhelmingly, the group decided they did not like the open-ended idea of an IELTS rubric, ...
A caller was considered to have limited English proficiency if, in the best judgment of the 9-1-1 audio recording reviewer, the person did not speak English as a primary language and thus had limited ability to speak and understand English.17 Outcome definitions, abstractor approach to ...
–At the moment in Italy there is still good demand for T&I services from English into Italian given the general low English language proficiency of Italian people. However, in the future the language proficiency is likely to increase –All translators will need to have English among their workin...
Following a well-attended online meeting of the BALEAP Teacher Education in EAP SIG, I expressed critical interest in Exploratory Practice (Allwright & Hanks, 2009; Hanks, 2017a), and askedin this post: ‘but is it research?’. Judith Hanks sent me the following response, which I’m postin...
6An anonymous reviewer raised the issue of using test instruments that were more language-performance- based (e.g., a reading task requiring understanding of targeted phrasal verbs or a writing task designed to elicit phrasal verbs). The decision to elicit explanations in- stead was made because...
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Fifty-six Portuguese speakers born and raised in Brazil produced Portuguese words beginning in one of four plosives, /p b k ɡ/. Twenty-eight of them were monolinguals (controls), and the rest were learners of English as a foreign language (EFL). The learners were also asked to produce ...
As one reviewer suggested, it would be recommendable to conduct analyses examining order effects, as well as analyses examining repetition of exemplars across the two languages in future studies. Finally, it needs to be stressed that this study focused on language dominance based on spoken lexical ...