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Health Equity, 2020 Purpose: Limited English proficiency adversely impacts people's ability to access health services. This study examines the association between English language proficiency and insurance access and use of a usual care provider after the implementation of ...
A. M. Foiles Sifuentes +5 more
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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2019 In this study we examined the level of English proficiency children can obtain through out-of-school exposure in informal contexts prior to English classroom instruction.
Vanessa De Wilde +2 more
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Describing increasing proficiency in teachers' knowledge of the effective use of digital technology
Comput. Educ., 2020 This paper aims to contribute to the theoretical framing of Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) by exploring how a measurement approach can be used to address the need to improve the prescriptive value of the framework.
Ralph Saubern +3 more
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International Review of Education, 2020 Practice engagement theory (PET) posits that individuals’ literacy proficiencies develop as a by-product of their engagement in everyday reading and writing practices and, reciprocally, that literacy proficiencies affect levels of engagement in reading ...
S. Reder +2 more
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FACETS OF SPEAKING PROFICIENCY [PDF]
Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2012 This study examined the componential structure of second-language (L2) speaking proficiency. Participants—181 L2 and 54 native speakers of Dutch—performed eight speaking tasks and six tasks tapping nine linguistic skills. Performance in the speaking tasks was rated on functional adequacy by a panel of judges and formed the dependent variable in ...
de Jong, N.H. +4 more
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Learning Vocabulary Through Listening: The Role of Vocabulary Knowledge and Listening Proficiency
Language Learning, 2020 This study explored the impact of pre-existing vocabulary knowledge (PVK) and listening proficiency on the vocabulary learning through listening of 137 Chinese learners of English, when provided with three types of oral vocabulary explanations: L2 ...
Pengchong Zhang, S. Graham
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The Language Experience and Proficiency Questionnaire (LEAP-Q): Ten years later
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2019 The Language Experience and Proficiency Questionnaire (LEAP-Q) is a validated questionnaire tool for collecting self-reported proficiency and experience data from bilingual and multilingual speakers ages 14 to 80.
Margarita Kaushanskaya +2 more
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Proficiency Testing Matters [PDF]
Clinical Chemistry, 2013 Far too many laboratories consider proficiency testing just a necessary evil, little more than periodic pass–fail exercises we perform solely to meet regulatory requirements. In addition, too many of us belittle point-of-care (POC)2 testing as a passing fad, a technology so inferior to what we use in our own laboratories that it hardly warrants our ...
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EFL STUDENTS’ MOTIVATION IN WRITING, WRITING PROFICIENCY, AND GENDER
, 2020 There have been a lot of research studies on the role of motivation in education and language learning. However, research on the role of motivation in the area of EFL (English as a foreign language) writing is a rare undertaking.
B. Cahyono, T. Rahayu
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Pediatric gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (GEP‐NENs) are extremely rare and clinically heterogeneous. Management has largely been extrapolated from adult practice. This European Standard Clinical Practice Guideline (ESCP), developed by the EXPeRT network in collaboration with adult NEN experts, provides (adult) evidence ...
Michaela Kuhlen +23 more
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