COMMON EUROPEAN FRAMEWORK OF REFERENCE FOR LANGUAGES:
Learning, teaching, assessment

Chapter 4.4
COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE ACTIVITIES AND STRATEGIES



Production - Reception - Interaction - Mediation - Non-verbal Communication


INSTRUCTIONS TO USE THIS CLICKABLE VERSION OF THE CEFRL:

The page-references correspond to the online .pdf version of the CEFRL
by the Council of Europe.



ACTIVITIES
COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE
STRATEGIES

Oral (speaking) p. 58-60

  • Overall oral production
  • Sustained monologue: describing experience
  • Sustained monologue: putting a case (e.g.in a debate)
  • Public announcements
  • Addressing audiences

PRODUCTION

p. 64-65

  • Planning
  • Compensating
  • Monitoring and repair

Written (writing) p. 61-62

  • Overall written production
  • Creative Writing
  • Reports and essays

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ACTIVITIES
COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE
STRATEGIES

Aural (listening) p. 66-68

  • Overall listening comprehension
  • Understanding interaction between native speakers
  • Listening as a member of a live audience
  • Listening to announcements and instructions
  • Listening to audio media and recordings

RECEPTION

p. 72

  • Identifying clues and inferring (Spoken & Written)

Visual (watching) p. 69-71

  • Overall reading comprehension
  • Reading correspondence
  • Reading for orientation
  • Reading for information and argument
  • Reading instructions

Audio-visual (listening and watching) p. 71

  • Watching TV and films

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ACTIVITIES
COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE
STRATEGIES

Spoken interaction p. 74-82

  • Overall spoken interaction
  • Understanding a native speaker interlocutor
  • Conversation
  • Informal discussion (entre amis)
  • Formal discussion and meetings
  • Goal-oriented co-operation
  • Transactions to obtain goods and services
  • Information exchange
  • Interviewing and being interviewed
INTERACTION

p. 86-87

  • Taking the floor
  • Co-operating
  • Asking for clarification

Written interaction p.83-84

  • Overall written interaction
  • Correspondence
  • Notes, messages and forms
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ACTIVITIES
COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE
STRATEGIES
  • p.87
MEDIATION
p.88
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ACTIVITIES
COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE
STRATEGIES
  • p.88-89
NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATON
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Cover picture from :Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment, Cambridge University Press, 2001. (ISBN: 0521005310)
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