MAGICAL Teacher's Guide - Book - Page 247
COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE COMPETENCES
Linguistic (Lexical Band I and Grammar Band I)
General linguistic range
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Can exploit a very basic range of simple expressions related to personal details and needs of a concrete type
Can use some basic structures in sentences with some omission or reduction of elements
Vocabulary range and control
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Can draw on his/her receptive and productive knowledge of vocabulary (Lexical Band I) when relating to
particular concrete situations
Grammatical accuracy
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Can use a few simple grammatical structures and sentence patterns (specified in Grammar Band I) to fulfill
simple communicative needs
Phonological control
Sound articulation
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Can correctly reproduce a range of sounds in simple, familiar words and phrases with appropriate stress
Prosodic features
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Can articulate a limited repertoire of words and phrases using appropriate prosodic features (stress, rhythm,
intonation) despite possible interference from other language(s) he/she speaks
Orthographic control
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Can copy familiar words and common, frequent short phrases
Can spell the lexical entries in Lexical Band I marked as productive with reasonable accuracy
Shows evolving control of periods, commas, question marks, apostrophes, and capital letters
Sociolinguistic appropriateness
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Can establish basic social contact by using the simplest everyday polite forms of: greetings and farewells;
introductions; saying 8please,9 8thank you,9 etc.
Pragmatic
Coherence and cohesion
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Can link words or groups of words with basic linear connectors
Propositional precision
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Can communicate basic information about personal details and needs of a concrete type in a simple way
Spoken fluency
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Can produce single words and lexical chunks while pausing to search for ways to articulate less familiar
lexical items and/or to repair communication
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