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sociolinguistic competence (see section
5.2.2) be assumed to be transferable from the learner’s experience of social life or faci-
litated:
a)
by exposure to authentic language used appropriately in its social setting?
b)
by selecting or constructing texts that exemplify sociolinguistic contrasts between
the society of origin and the target society?
c)
by drawing attention to sociolinguistic contrasts as they are encountered, explain-
ing and discussing them?
d)
by waiting for errors to be made, then marking, analysing and explaining them and
giving the correct usage?
e)
as part of the explicit teaching of a sociocultural component in the study of a
modern language?
6.4.9
Should the development of the learner’s 
pragmatic competences (see section 5.2.3)
be: 
a)
assumed to be transferable from education and general experience in the mother
tongue (L1)?
or facilitated:
b)
by progressively increasing the complexity of discourse structure and the functional
range of the texts presented to the learner?
c)
by requiring the learner to produce texts of increasing complexity by translating
texts of increasing complexity from L1 to L2?
d)
by setting tasks that require a wider functional range and adherence to verbal
exchange patterns?
e)
by awareness-raising (analysis, explanation, terminology, etc.) in addition to practi-
cal activities?
f)
by explicit teaching and exercising of functions, verbal exchange patterns and dis-
course structure?
Users of the Framework may wish to consider and where appropriate state:
•
to what extent sociolinguistic and pragmatic competences can be assumed or left to
develop naturally;
•
what methods and techniques should be employed to facilitate their development where it
is felt to be necessary or advisable to do so.
Users of the Framework may wish to consider and where appropriate state how the phonetic
and orthographic forms of words, sentences, etc. are conveyed to and mastered by learners.
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