ORAL COMMUNICATION LEVEL 1

Full support

Works alongside expert/mentor

Prompting and modelling provided

Highly familiar contexts

Concrete and immediate

Very restricted range of contexts

Short and simple

Highly explicit purpose

Limited, highly familiar vocabulary

PERFORMANCE FEATURES INCLUDE:

Range and context

• Understands and responds appropriately in highly familiar oral contexts where exchanges are short and explicit

Audience and purpose

• Asks simple questions and makes statements with reasonable effectiveness where this involves short utterances and highly familiar content
• Responds to a request for clarification or repetition and makes statements with reasonable effectiveness where this involves short utterances and highly familiar content

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Cohesion and structure

Grammar

• Uses basic structures and very limited verb tenses

Vocabulary

• Uses a small bank of individual words and phrases, which may be memorised and formulaic, including those related to giving personal details, exchanging or obtaining information, goods and services, and those necessary to meet survival needs

Pronunciation and fluency

• Produces utterances which may feature variations in pronunciation, stress patterns and intonation, possibly requiring verification
• Uses speech that is characterised by long pauses, numerous repetitions or isolated words and phrases

Paralinguistics

• Relies heavily on paralinguistic support such as gestures and facial expressions to express meaning