english proficiency and language preference testing the equivalence of two measures

... nine’, ‘on top of the world’, ‘over the moon’ and ‘thrilled to bits’). They are dealt with in respect of their grammatical features including the syntactic functions and morphology, and their semantic ... nuance of meaning in terms of grammar and semantics. In this article, we are to discuss the grammatical features [1,2] and semantic structures [3-5] of the English words and idioms denoting the ... Dictionary of Current English [6], The American Heritage Dictionary of The English Language [7] and Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms [8]. 2. Adjectives Denoting Great Pleasure All the adjectives...

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... awake and in the land of the living clear wide 9.give the rest of the house a surprise by showing your classical education and say: up on off in 10.Well I think I'll be off ... last lasting final English Language Proficiency Tests-Advanced Level's archive At the End of the Day (4) 1.There are several that describe the state of being asleep impressions ... now and my rest in the arms of Morpheus. Happy dreams! fetch broad high 8.let me leave you with a expression. Next time you're off upstairs to bed end last lasting final English...

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... all, the best thing is to drop off or nod off in the middle of the conversation. restrictions inhibitions 2.I think it's time for me to hit the sack, which need be no of the softness ... for the night. incidentally English Language Proficiency Tests-Advanced Level's archive At the End of the Day (3) 1.Without offending the of your host, you could also say: hostelry ... softness of the mattress. criterion critique criticism critical 3 .And very important people are not described as simply going to bed but rather retiring for the night. incidentally English...

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... to the destination country norms. Some of these studies also compare the outcomes of the immigrants (the first generation) to those of their U.S born children (the second generation) and grandchildren ... Bean, Stephen and Opitz (1988) use 1980 Census data to estimate the effect of English proficiency on the fertility behavior of Mexican American women. They find that greater English proficiency ... suggests that the additional education attained as a result of better English is not the central channel for these results, leaving room for some other channels for the effect of English proficiency, ...

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... In the analyses of landscapes, the distance from the bottom of the picture to the location of the horizon was mea- sured. 4 In the analyses of portraits, we measured the ratio of the area of the ... p Ratio of the 14.65 12.50 4.28 8.33 9.10 .001 face area to the frame TABLE 3: Average Ratio in Percentage of the Height of the Horizon to the Height of the Entire Frame and the Average Ratio of the ... especially Zen monks, often draw the portrait of the founder of their sect and have the portrait on the wall during their prayers. The Mikado’s family members, court nobles, and Shoguns of military governments...

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... that the more the noun's relation to human becomes closer and the more the level of abstract of the noun becomes lower the numbers of verbs that are closely related to them ~id therefore ... associate to them (nouns) become large. And that the numbers of associated ideoms or ideom like parases become large, Therefore, the division of categories must further be done. The process of constructing ... at the lower level categories. (2) To each verb found in the process of the association, consults ordinary dictionary of translation equivalents and word usage of verbs and obtain the set of...

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... speaking of the metropolitan police officers? Significance of the Study For better understanding of the daily routine and the English proficiency level of the metropolitan police officers ... survey of cabin attendants’ needs of English. The study investigated the needs for English, the important functions of the language, the problems in using the language and the needs to improve the ... travel, and shopping. The MPOs perceive that their own English proficiency is insufficient for work and they need to improve their English skills. The MPOs need to have a good command of English...

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... and drafted the manuscript. TM and FS carried out the MATLABđ pre-processing. KE and DK participated in the design of the study. MW participated in the design and coordination of the study. All ... vision. The study was approved by the ethics committee of the Canton of Zurich and was in accordance with the latest version of the Helsinki declaration. Holper et al. Journal of NeuroEngineering and ... (imitation with the subject’s right dominant hand) (Figure 6). Further, the Δ[O 2 Hb] in the right h emisphere during movement of the subjects’ left hand (i.e. the non-dominant, contral- ateral hand) is...

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... At the time of prosthesis reimplantation, the spacer head can be easily removed and the modular prosthesis parts (neck and head) placed. This procedure offers a stable fracture treat- ment and ... at the site of hip spacer implantation. Right: Treatment consisted of spacer removal, and insertion of a cement-coated modular prosthesis with a spacer head. The cement mantle of the prosthesis ... and evaluate the effect of a metallic endo- skeleton on the pharmacokinetic properties of the interim prosthesis. Conflict of Interest The authors have declared that no conflict of in- terest...

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... hematopoietic and GI tissues [1]. The extensive death of the immune cells results in leukopenia which severely weakens the immune system of cancer patients and therefore greatly increases the chance of ... receiving chemotherapy, so as to allow their immune systems to restore function [2]. On the other hand, the death of GI cells breaks down the physical defence of GI system in the host who will ... from the cytotoxicity of CY in mice. We also profiled the changes of the expression of growth factors in gastric tissues in response to the damage by CY and protection by AP. 2. Materials and...

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