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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"low-proficiency level"”.
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The Dominant Listening Strategy of Low-Proficiency Level Learners of Mandarin Chinese: Bottom-Up Processing or Top-Down Processing
… and bottom-up processing). In this study, 31 low-proficiency level Mandarin Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) learners from Brigham Young University took the Chinese Computer Adaptive Language Test (CCALT) and listened to four listening passages, measured by idea unit analysis and local and …
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Developing Four-Skill Literacy among Adult Heritage Learners: Effects of Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Variables on the Attainment of Low-Proficiency Heritage Studies of Russian within a Dedicated College-Level Bridge Course
… production of Russian heritage speakers of the low-proficiency level, i.e., those who were born in the U.S. or arrived at a pre-school age.</p> <p>Performance-based data were collected in a university classroom environment by means of a special diagnostic test developed by the researcher, and by …
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How English as first additional language is taught and used in quintile one primary school in Grade 4 where learners officially change from isiXhosa to English as the language of instruction: a case study
… countries are examined to explain the low proficiency level of the typical Grade 4 learner at this critical point in English language learning.
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Measuring fluency: Temporal variables and pausing patterns in L2 English speech
… fluency as a measurable component of oral proficiency. Fluency can be defined as ‘speed and smoothness of oral delivery’. We can measure the speed of oral delivery through calculating temporal variables such as speech rate and mean syllables per run where ‘run’ is the vocal chunk between …
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Oral corrective feedback in a blended learning environment: Challenges and contradictions faced by teachers in a Vietnamese university
… interviews, classroom observations followed by stimulated recall sessions, then focus group discussions, and narrative frames. All data were subjected to a process of grounded analysis. A key issue that the findings revealed was the appropriate balance between providing immediate …
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An analysis of syntactic errors in sentence construction: a case study of selected undergraduate first-year English majors in a South African University
… most students were identified as having a low proficiency level in the correct use of punctuation, coordinating, and subordinating conjunctions. Furthermore, the results revealed that most students were able to distinguish the structural variations between phrases, clauses, and sentences, …