Vantage (Post-Threshold Level; Council Of Europe)

Description: This series of learning objectives offers all practitioners a description of the language needed to assure a learner's ability to deal with the challenges presented by everyday communication.

Contents: 1; The objective: levels of specificity; 2; the objective: general characterization; 3; The objective: extended characterization; 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 at Vantage Level; B Pronunciation and intonation