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
- A Lexical exponents of specific notions for Vantage
- B Grammatical summary
A - Lexical exponents of specific notions for Vantage
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
- A Lexical exponents of specific notions for Vantage
- B Grammatical summary
Summary
This appendix is a listing of lexical exponents of specific notions which those concerned with the raising of communicative ability up to Vantage with regard to the ‘themes’ of Threshold might wish to consider. The exponents listed here are not presented as a defined lexical syllabus, nor even as ‘recommended exponents’. They represent stimuli which may be found useful by those involved in the development of theme-related ability to Vantage. Together with the common-core elements listed in Chapters 5 and 6 under ‘language functions’ and ‘general notions’, the lexicon contained in this appendix should provide learners with a significantly more advanced linguistic apparatus for dealing with the themes of most likely general interest to them than was available at Threshold level.
In accordance with its intended role the list presented here is to a large extent open-ended. The majority of the lexical items contained in it are listed as members of open classes, to be reduced, expanded, or otherwise altered as may best suit the needs and interests of the learners. To remind the user of this, they are invariably preceded by e.g. following the general indication of the class. Thus, those wishing some guidance as to which ‘names of birds’ (2.8) to consider for inclusion in a Vantage programme will find those which the authors of the present specification think may be particularly useful to them without, however, wishing to impose any selection on them.
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- Vantage , pp. 120 - 140Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000