It measures the ability of people to communicate in the workplace using everyday English.

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In 1931 he was arrested, haggard, confused and unable to communicate in English.

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In a recent paper, we found that bilateral trade between European countries depends positively on the probability that two randomly chosen individuals, one from each country, would be able to communicate with each other in English.

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While all this was happening, the pirates ordered him to communicate information about the incident to his shipping company in English, via satellite.

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