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Defining English Language Proficiency for Malaysian Tertiary Education: Past, Present and Future Efforts
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Heng, Chan Swee – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2012
Any attempt to define English language proficiency can never be divorced from the theories that describe the nature of language, language acquisition and human cognition. By virtue of such theories being socially constructed, the descriptions are necessarily value-laden. Thus, a definition of language proficiency can only, at best, be described as…
Descriptors: Definitions, Language Proficiency, English (Second Language), Postsecondary Education