Writing - Basic Proficiency

Global Performance Descriptor

• Learner can effectively convey in writing simple ideas and information about personal experience within predictable contexts of everyday needs.
• Can write simple descriptions and narration of events, stories, future plans about self and family, or other highly familiar topics.
• Can write short messages; postcards, notes, directions, and letters.
• Can fill out simple application forms.
• Can copy information from dictionaries, encyclopedias, and manuals.
• Can take a slow simple dictation with frequent repetitions.
• Shows ability to use successfully one-clause sentences or coordinated clauses with basic tenses.

Performance Conditions

• Circumstances range from informal to more formal occasions.
• Addressee is familiar.
• Topics are of immediate everyday relevance.
• Letter is one paragraph long.
• Note is three to five sentences long.
• Texts to copy are one to two paragraphs, with easy layout, in legible handwriting or print.
• Texts may come from various sources and may be of a more specialized or technical nature.
• Forms are simple in format, 20 items long.
• Text is one paragraph long, on a familiar and personally relevant topic.