ORAL COMMUNICATION LEVEL 5

Displays depth of understanding of complex oral texts which include multiple and unstated meanings

Little or no support

Initiates support from own established resources

Broad range of contexts

Adaptability within and across contexts

Specialisation in one or more contexts

Highly conplex texts

Highly embedded information

Includes highly specialised language

PERFORMANCE FEATURES INCLUDE:

• Demonstrates command of language structures, registers, vocabulary and idiom required to participate in complex problematic oral exchanges as well as extended conversational exchanges

• Demonstrates sensitivity to register across a broad range of contexts

• Follows oral texts which include structurally complex sentences
• Understands oral texts which use sophisticated stylistic devices such as nominalisation

• Draws on a repertoire of active listening strategies to maintain understanding throughout oral texts
• Listens in order to make notes from spoken texts across a range of contexts

• Understands broad vocabulary including idioms, colloquialisms and cultural references
• Understands appropriate specialised vocabulary in a variety of situations, e.g. explanations, descriptions, debates, exchanging or obtaining goods and services

• Actively interprets mood and meaning conveyed through stress and intonation

• Interprets subtle shifts in dialogue indicated by gesture and/or other paralinguistic features
• Picks up on possible subtexts indicated by gesture and/or other paralinguistic features