Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 The objective: levels of specificity
- 2 The objective: general characterisation
- 3 The objective: extended characterisation
- 4 The objective: components of the specification
- 5 Language functions
- 6 General notions
- 7 Topic-related tasks and lexicon
- 8 Discourse structure and verbal exchange
- 9 Dealing with texts: reading and listening
- 10 Writing
- 11 Sociocultural competence
- 12 Compensation strategies
- 13 Learning to learn
- 14 Degree of skill
- 15 By-products
- APPENDICES
2 - The objective: general characterisation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 The objective: levels of specificity
- 2 The objective: general characterisation
- 3 The objective: extended characterisation
- 4 The objective: components of the specification
- 5 Language functions
- 6 General notions
- 7 Topic-related tasks and lexicon
- 8 Discourse structure and verbal exchange
- 9 Dealing with texts: reading and listening
- 10 Writing
- 11 Sociocultural competence
- 12 Compensation strategies
- 13 Learning to learn
- 14 Degree of skill
- 15 By-products
- APPENDICES
Summary
As visitors to, or residents in, a country where the foreign language is used for general communication purposes,
when dealing with foreign visitors or residents in their own country, using English as a common means of communication,
in contact with native or with non-native speakers of English in another foreign country,
when encountering written or spoken texts in the foreign language,
the learners will be able to use the foreign language in such a way as to cope with the (principally linguistic) requirements of those situations they are likely to find themselves in, particularly:
situations involving practical transactions in everyday life;
situations involving personal interaction, enabling the learners to establish and maintain social contacts as well as to engage in meaningful relations in various domains of public life (e.g. business, education, welfare, entertainment);
situations involving indirect communication, requiring the understanding of the gist and relevant details of written or spoken texts.
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- Vantage , pp. 8Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000