Advanced speakers speak in paragraphs Superior speakers can speak extensively in an organized and sequenced fashion. Proficiency Ranges Components of communicative competence may be measured within a hierarchical scale within the 5 assessment criteria that we had just looked at. Individuals at this level have no real functional ability to communicate. Speech is characterized by a few memorized words or phrases. Speech is made up of lists of vocabulary.
Speakers are unable to handle even the most basic survival situations.
Can handle everyday social encounters such as greetings, leave taking, use of polite formulae with some degree of appropriateness. Can handle a simple survival situation that one might encounter abroad. Discourse is characterized by simple sentences or phrases. There is little use of cohesive devices. Intermediate speech is quite inaccurate, even in basic structures.