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 exchanges that are short and explicit
• Depends on prior knowledge of context and personal experience when listening
  

Audience and purpose

• Identifies specific information in spoken texts relating to items, people and/or activities in the immediate environment

Structure and grammar

•  Comprehends basic structures and very limited verb tenses

Comprehension

• Comprehends simple questions
• Indicates a need for clarification or repetition
• Identifies requests for clarification or repetition

Vocabulary

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

Rhythm, stress, intonation

• Depends on repetition of utterances when necessary, and slow, clear speech

Paralinguistics

• Relies heavily on gestures and facial expressions to make meaning