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The BEST Dataset of Language Proficiency [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00522/full#supplementary ...
De Bruin, Angela Maria Theresia +2 more
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EFL Prospective Teachers’ English Language Proficiency Development: A Longitudinal Study [PDF]
Maǧallaẗ Kulliyyaẗ Al-Tarbiyyẗ Ǧamiʿaẗ Banhā, 2020 The purpose of the current study was to examine English language proficiency development among EFL prospective teachers during their four-year study at the faculty of education. A sample of sixty six college EFL prospective teachers took part in the
Marwa A. Naeem
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Reading & Writing, 2019 Background: The teaching of reading strategies that enhance comprehension is a priority for many practising lecturers involved in academic literacy programmes.
Vimbai Hungwe
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Effects of proficiency and age of language acquisition on working memory performance in bilinguals [PDF]
Psihologija, 2010 This study examined language proficiency and age of language acquisition influences on working memory performance in bilinguals. Bilingual subjects were administered reading span task in parallel versions for their first and second language.
Vejnović Dušan +2 more
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Does language make people more prosocial? The influence of Mandarin proficiency on donation behavior
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Both the effects of language proficiency on individual outcomes, and the influencing factors of individual donation arouse wide concern, but researchers have hardly probed into the relationship between language proficiency and donation behavior.
Qiang Wang, Laihui Yu, Ruilin Zhang
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Proficiency, Attitude, and Conventions in Minority Languages [PDF]
Sociological Methods & Research, 2016 In this article, we study a simple mathematical model of a bilingual community in which all agents are fluent in the majority language but only a fraction of the population has some degree of proficiency in the minority language. We investigate how different distributions of proficiency, combined with the speakers’ attitudes toward or against the ...
Laruelle, Annick +2 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 This article examines the relationship between English medium instruction (EMI) teachers' classroom English proficiency and their teaching self-efficacy.
Changmi Wang
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Predicting the Difficulty of Language Proficiency Tests [PDF]
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2014 Language proficiency tests are used to evaluate and compare the progress of language learners. We present an approach for automatic difficulty prediction of C-tests that performs on par with human experts. On the basis of detailed analysis of newly collected data, we develop a model for C-test difficulty introducing four dimensions: solution ...
Beinborn, Lisa +2 more
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The link between Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety, Second Language Tolerance of Ambiguity and Self-rated English proficiency among Chinese learners [PDF]
, 2013 Previous research has suggested that high levels of Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety (FLCA) have a negative effect on foreign language learning (Horwitz, 2001; Lu & Liu, 2011) while moderate levels of Second Language Tolerance of Ambiguity (SLTA) are
Shan Ip, T. +4 more
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Third language acquisition: Age, proficiency and multilingualism
, 2020 This book deals with the phenomenon of third language (L3) acquisition. As a research field, L3 acquisition is established as a branch of multilingualism that is concerned with how multilinguals learn additional languages and the role that their ...
Gudmundson, Anna +9 more
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