|
Level |
Speaking |
Listening |
Reading |
Writing |
|
0 |
No Proficiency: Unable to function in the spoken language |
No Proficiency: No
practical understanding of the spoken language. |
No Proficiency: No practical ability to read the language. |
No Proficiency: No functional writing ability. |
|
0+ |
Memorized Proficiency: Able to satisfy immediate needs using
rehearsed utterances. |
Memorized Proficiency: Sufficient comprehension to understand
a number of memorized utterances in areas of immediate needs. |
Memorized Proficiency: Can recognize all the letters in the
printed version of an alphabetic system and high- frequency elements
of a syllabary or a character system. |
Memorized Proficiency: Writes using memorized material and
set expressions. |
|
1 |
Elementary Proficiency: Able to satisfy minimum courtesy requirements
and maintain very simple face-to-face conversations on familiar
topics. |
Elementary Proficiency: Sufficient comprehension to understand
utterances about basic survival needs and minimum courtesy and
travel requirements. |
Elementary Proficiency: Sufficient comprehension to read very
simple connected written material in a form equivalent to usual
printing or typescript. |
Elementary Proficiency: Sufficient control of the writing system
to meet limited practical needs. |
|
1+ |
Elementary Proficiency, Plus:
Can initiate and maintain
predictable face-to-face conversations and satisfy limited social
demands |
Elementary Proficiency, Plus: Sufficient comprehension to understand
short conversations about all survival needs and limited social
demands |
Elementary Proficiency, Plus: Sufficient comprehension to understand
simple discourse in printed form for informative social purposes. |
Elementary Proficiency, Plus: Sufficient control of the writing system
to meet most survival needs and limited social demands. |
|
2 |
Limited Working Proficiency: Able to satisfy routine social demands
and limited work requirements. |
Limited Working Proficiency: Sufficient comprehension to understand
conversations on routine social demands and limited job requirements. |
Limited Working Proficiency: Sufficient comprehension to read simple,
authentic written material in a form equivalent to usual printing
or typescript on subjects within a familiar context. |
Limited Working Proficiency: Able to write routine social correspondence
and prepare documentary materials required for most limited work
requirements. |
|
2+ |
Limited Working Proficiency,
Plus: Able to satisfy
most work requirements with language usage that is often, but
not always, acceptable and effective. |
Limited Working Proficiency,
Plus: Sufficient comprehension
to understand most routine social demands and most conversations
on work requirements as well as some discussions on concrete
topics related to particular interests and special fields of
competence. |
Limited Working Proficiency,
Plus: Sufficient comprehension
to understand most factual material in non-technical prose as
well as some discussions on concrete topics related to special
professional interests. |
Limited Working Proficiency,
Plus: Shows ability to
write with some precision and in some detail about most common
topics. |
|
3 |
General Professional Proficiency:
Able to speak the language
with sufficient structural accuracy and vocabulary to participate
effectively in most formal and informal conversations on practical,
social, and professional topics. |
General Professional Proficiency: Able to understand the essentials of
all speech in a standard dialect including technical discussions
within a special field. |
General Professional Proficiency: Able to read within a normal range of
speed and with almost complete comprehension a variety of authentic
prose material on unfamiliar subjects. |
General Professional Proficiency:
Able to use the language
effectively in most formal and informal written exchanges on
practical, social, and professional topics. |
|
3+ |
General Professional Proficiency,
Plus: Is often able to
use the language to satisfy professional needs in a wide range
of sophisticated and demanding tasks. |
General Professional Proficiency,
Plus: Comprehends most
of the content and intent of a variety of forms and styles of
speech pertinent to professional needs, as well as general topics
and social conversations. |
General Professional Proficiency,
Plus: Can comprehend
a variety of styles and forms pertinent to professional needs. |
General Professional Proficiency,
Plus: Able to write the
language in a few prose styles pertinent to professional/educational
needs. |
|
4 |
Advanced Professional Proficiency:
Able to use to the language
fluently and accurately on all levels normally pertinent to professional
needs. |
Advanced Professional Proficiency:
Able to understand all
forms and styles of speech pertinent to professional needs. |
Advanced Professional Proficiency:
Able to read fluently
and accurately all styles and forms of the language pertinent
to professional needs. |
Advanced Professional Proficiency:
Able to write the language
precisely and accurately in a variety of prose styles pertinent
to professional/ educational needs. |
|
4+ |
Advanced Professional Proficiency,
Plus: Speaking proficiency
is regularly superior in all respects, usually equivalent to
that of a well-educated, highly articulate native speaker. |
Advanced Professional Proficiency,
Plus: Increased ability
to understand extremely difficult and abstract speech as well
as ability to understand all forms of speech pertinent to professional
needs, including social conversations. |
Advanced Professional Proficiency,
Plus: Nearly native ability
to read and understand extremely difficult or abstract prose,
a very wide variety of vocabulary, idioms, colloquialisms, and
slang. |
Advanced Professional Proficiency,
Plus: Able to write the
language precisely and accurately in a wide variety of prose
styles pertinent to professional/ educational needs. |
|
5 |
Functionally Native Proficiency: Speaking proficiency is functionally
equivalent to that of a highly articulate, well-educated native
speaker and reflects the cultural standards of the country where
the language is natively spoken. |
Functionally Native Proficiency: Comprehension equivalent to that of
a the educated native listener. |
Functionally Native Proficiency: Reading proficiency is functionally
equivalent to that of the well-educated native reader. |
Functionally Native Proficiency: Has writing proficiency equal to that
of a well-educated native. |