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General description:
- Learner can write a coherent, well-developed paragraph on a topic that is familiar and
relevant. Can join three or four paragraphs into a larger text. Discourse structure may
sometimes seem awkward, especially in textual cohesion.
- Writing, although clear in ideas to the reader, contains accuracy and lexical
collocation errors, and lacks flexibility in style.
- Structures are complex, reflecting agent - event relations and logical relations of
contrast, time, cause and reason, purpose and comment.
- When allowing a more personal creative expression in writing, learner often uses
compensatory strategies to express herself/himself fully - "overelaboration",
literal translation, false cognates, circumlocution.
- Can write routine business letters and personal but formal notes within a social domain.
- Can write down a set of clear instructions, based on oral communication or written
procedural text of greater length.
- Can extract key information and relevant detail from a page long text and
write a one paragraph summary.
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