Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 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 Specific notions
- 8 Verbal exchange patterns
- 9 Dealing with texts: reading and listening
- 10 Writing
- 11 Sociocultural competence
- 12 Compensation strategies
- 13 Learning to learn
- 14 Degree of skill
- APPENDICES
2 - The objective: general characterisation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 February 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 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 Specific notions
- 8 Verbal exchange patterns
- 9 Dealing with texts: reading and listening
- 10 Writing
- 11 Sociocultural competence
- 12 Compensation strategies
- 13 Learning to learn
- 14 Degree of skill
- APPENDICES
Summary
As temporary visitors to, or temporary residents in, a country where the foreign language is used for general communication purposes,
when dealing with foreign visitors or temporary residents in their own country, using English as a common means of communication,
in contact with native or with non-native speakers of the foreign language 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 most likely to find themselves in, particularly:
situations, including practical transactions in everyday life, requiring a largely predictable language use;
situations involving personal interaction, enabling the learners to establish and to maintain social contacts, including those made in business contacts;
situations involving indirect communication, requiring the understanding of the gist and/or relevant details of written or spoken texts.
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- Threshold 1990 , pp. 11Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1998