10 - Developing Competence in Advanced Oral Communication

General description:

Learner can communicate orally in some unpredictable contexts and can function independently in familiar and some unfamiliar social situations.
Follows formal and informal conversations on most practical, social and work topics with some unfamiliar vocabulary at a normal rate of speech.
Comfortably participates in oral discourse on a variety of topics beyond common daily needs.
Able to determine mood, attitudes, feelings.
Understands and uses sufficient vocabulary, idioms and colloquial expressions to follow and relate stories of general popular interest. Clarifies meaning by re-wording, rephrasing.
Language form is complex ( e.g. multiclause compound and complex sentences/ utterances). Linguistic errors do not interfere in communication. Self-corrects effectively.
In social interaction functions, learner chooses expressions appropriately to formality level of the situation.
Discourse is of moderate to extended length, with complex and detailed information content needed for analysis, comparison and decision-making.
Uses the phone on unfamiliar matters, able to clarify details.