Lack of proficiency; failure to make progress or improve; unskilfulness.

• Language leading to disengagement. Not participating in tutorials, presentations or group work can be seen as lack of commitment in universities and other higher education institutions.
• Language impacting relationships with staff and students.
• Masking dyslexia or other learning difficulties.

1 Definition English Language Proficiency is the ability of Students to use the English language to make and communicate meaning in spoken and written contexts while completing their program of study.

The ACTFL scale consists of five main fluency levels known as Novice, Intermediate, Advanced, Superior and Distinguished. These levels include sublevels of proficiency known as low, medium or high.

Level 3—Intermediate [WIDA level = Developing]: A pupil shall be classified level 3 if all of the following criteria are met: (a) The pupil understands and speaks conversational and academic English with decreasing hesitancy and difficulty.

Level 2 – Early Intermediate. Students performing at this level of English language proficiency respond with increasing ease to more varied communication tasks. Student actions at this level: ● semi-withdrawn. ● uses key words to communicate social.

For each skill, these guidelines identify five major levels of proficiency: Distinguished, Superior, Advanced, Intermediate, and Novice. The major levels Advanced, Intermediate, and Novice are subdivided into High, Mid, and Low sublevels.

In my view, B2 is the level where you are fluent. If you look at the summary description below you will see that this level, sort of advanced intermediate, is actually quite high. It means you understand most situations, and can express yourself on a wide variety of subjects, albeit with mistakes.

A native speaker is more than fluent—he correctly and easily uses his first language, in a proper sense as well as understands and can use colloquialisms, idioms and slang. with equal fluency.” Unless all languages are spoken with equal strength, the term “bilingual” really doesn’t apply.

Like a native speaker, a fluent speaker of a language is very comfortable with the language — however, it is not necessarily their first, native, or mother tongue. Although it’s difficult to achieve, fluency can be attained through extended study and, usually, with time spent living in full linguistic immersion.

Studies on international adoptees have found that even nine-year-olds can almost completely forget their first language when they are removed from their country of birth. But in adults, the first language is unlikely to disappear entirely except in extreme circumstances.