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General description:
- Learner is able to read some authentic texts of 2-3 pages within an unfamiliar and only
partially predictable context of daily social, educational and work-related life
experience.
- Texts are mostly of factual but also of abstract nature. Language references to abstract
ideas appear frequently.
- Many words and idioms are unfamiliar, text can contain a wide range of complex
structures. Meaning includes not only facts but attitudes and opinion. Some information is
explicit and some is implied. Lexical, grammatical and rhetorical cohesion devices are
complex in range and demanding to follow.
- Learner often requires re-reading and clarification of parts with "journalese"
or general use idiom and various culturally dependent implications and references.
- Able to deal with ambiguity, e.g. unknown words, phrases, implications. Often attempts
successfully to reconstruct the missing elements without a dictionary. Uses skimming and
scanning, prediction and guessing to find general and specific information/meaning.
- Uses a unilingual dictionary for precision vocabulary building.
- Reads English for information, learning the language, reading skills development. May
read simple newspaper and magazine articles and popular easy fiction for pleasure.
- Can read silently for meaning; encounters problems with sounding out some words
(incorrect syllable stress) or phrases ( rhythm and intonation patterns) when reading
aloud.
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