proficiency

proficient | American Dictionary

proficient
adjective
us/prəˈfɪʃ·ənt/
skilled and experienced:
a proficient swimmer
He studied Chinese and became proficient in the language.

proficiency

noun[ U ]us/prəˈfɪʃ·ən·si/
Morgan has great proficiency as a jazz saxophonist.

proficient | Business English

proficient
adjective
uk /prəˈfɪʃənt/us
very skilled and experienced at something:
proficient at sth/doing sthConsumers have become more proficient at shopping online.
proficient in sthThe government will help small businesses become proficient in the technologies they need to compete in the digital marketplace.

Examples of proficient

proficient
Second, the more proficient students can use context better than the less proficient students.
Their findings indicate that, regardless of question type, the more proficient test takers performed better on 'non-matching' texts than did the less proficient.
How proficient are you in reading other languages (specify ________)?
For the easy reading, there was little difference in strategy use between more and less proficient readers.
These perceptual assimilations, moreover, are attested even in highly proficient bilinguals, and they resist specific training.
First, patients who were unable to generate these constructions before training were now much more proficient in their use.
It was found that the orally more proficient students drew on a wider range of strategies than did their less proficient counterparts.
Taking a closer look at the performance of two proficient, balanced bilinguals with above-average literacy skills, these global tendencies are confirmed.
Forty years of language teaching not creating communicatively proficient learners, a new mousetrap begged to be invented.
The purpose of this article is to reveal how to build the automatic process of word recognition for those who are less proficient at reading.
Here we report results from the brain activity of very proficient early bilinguals making a lexical decision task that illustrates this point.
The article initially looks at the problems less proficient readers face and what research has revealed.
Less proficient learners relied more on background knowledge and keyword inferencing.
The idea that bilinguals may not be equally proficient in both or all of their languages is certainly not a new or original proposal.
How do highly proficient bilinguals control their lexicalization process?
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