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Aspects of Fluency Across Assessed Levels of Speaking Proficiency

Modern Language Journal, 2020
Recent research in second language acquisition suggests that a number of speed, breakdown, repair, and composite measures reliably assess fluency and predict proficiency.
Parvaneh Tavakoli, Fumiyo Nakatsuhara, Ann-Marie Hunter   +2 more
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LLM+P: Empowering Large Language Models with Optimal Planning Proficiency [PDF]

arXiv.org, 2023
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable zero-shot generalization abilities: state-of-the-art chatbots can provide plausible answers to many common questions that arise in daily life.
B. Liu, Yuqian Jiang, Xiaohan Zhang, Qian Liu, Shiqi Zhang, Joydeep Biswas, Peter Stone   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Disparities In Telehealth Use Among California Patients With Limited English Proficiency.

Health Affairs, 2021
Telehealth services that allow remote communication between the patient and the clinical team are an emerging part of care delivery. Given language barriers, patients with limited English proficiency present a unique set of challenges in integrating ...
J. A. Rodriguez, A. Saadi, L. Schwamm, D. Bates, L. Samal   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Digital demand and digital deficit: conceptualising digital literacy and gauging proficiency among higher education students

Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2022
For higher education students, developing digital literacy enhances their value to future employers and appeal in the graduate labour market. The purpose of this study was two-fold.
Ashlee Morgan, Ruth Sibson, Denise A Jackson   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

What drives success in English medium taught courses? The interplay between language proficiency, academic skills, and motivation

Studies in Higher Education, 2020
This article explores the relationship between course performance, English language proficiency, motivation, and academic language skills in an English medium instruction (EMI) university context. It analyses test and questionnaire data from 146 students
H. Rose, Samantha Curle, Ikuya Aizawa, Gene Thompson   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Beyond the threshold: Exploring English language proficiency, linguistic challenges, and academic language skills of Japanese students in an English medium instruction programme

Language Teaching Research, 2020
This article examines the relationship between Japanese undergraduate students’ English language proficiency and English language-related challenges faced when studying an international business course through English.
Ikuya Aizawa, H. Rose, Gene Thompson, Samantha Curle   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Motivation and Second Foreign Language Proficiency: The Mediating Role of Foreign Language Enjoyment

Sustainability, 2020
Inadequate research attention has been paid to the learning of a third language. For this reason, this study explores senior English major students’ learning of additional foreign languages in seven universities in Shaanxi Province, China.
Huiyu Zhang, Ying Dai, Yingchong Wang
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Power to Improve: Effects of Multilingualism and Perceived Proficiency on Enjoyment and Anxiety in Foreign Language Learning

European Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2020
The study examines whether already knowing several languages and feeling proficient in a new foreign language (FL) has an effect on positive and negative emotions during the learning.
E. Botes, Jean–Marc Dewaele, Samuel Greiff   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Predicting L2 reading proficiency with modalities of vocabulary knowledge: A bootstrapping approach

, 2020
Vocabulary’s relationship to reading proficiency is frequently cited as a justification for the assessment of L2 written receptive vocabulary knowledge. However, to date, there has been relatively little research regarding which modalities of vocabulary ...
Stuart Mclean, J. Stewart, A. Batty
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Remarks on proficient groups

Journal of Algebra, 2011
If a finite group G has a presentation with d generators and r relations, it is well-known that r - d is at least the rank of the Schur multiplier of G; a presentation is called efficient if equality holds. There is an analogous definition for proficient profinite presentations. We show that many perfect groups have proficient presentations.
R.M. Guralnick, W.M. Kantor, M. Kassabov, A. Lubotzky   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources