Document B3
Illustrative scales in Chapter 4: Working with text
TEXT
• Note taking in seminars and lectures
• Processing text
Document B4
Illustrative scales in Chapter 5: Communicative language competence
LINGUISTIC
Range:
•
General range
• Vocabulary range
Control:
• Grammatical accuracy
• Vocabulary control
•
Phonological control
• Orthographic control
SOCIOLINGUISTIC
• Sociolinguistic
PRAGMATIC
• Flexibility
• Taking the floor (turntaking) –
repeated
• Thematic development
• Coherence
• Propositional precision
• Spoken fluency
Document B5
Coherence in descriptor calibration
The position at which particular content appears on the scale demonstrates a high
degree of coherence. As an example, one can take topics. No descriptors were included
for topics, but topics were referred to in descriptors for various categories. The three
most
relevant categories were Describing & narrating,
Information exchange and
Range.
The charts below compare the way topics are treated in those three areas. Although
the content of the
three charts is not identical, comparison demonstrates a
considerable degree of coherence, which is reflected throughout the set of calibrated
descriptors. Analysis of this kind has been the basis for
producing descriptors for
categories not included in the original survey (
e.g. Public announcements) by recombining
descriptor elements.
Appendix B: The illustrative scales of descriptors
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