No teaching is possible without clearly defined learning goals. The learning goal for a specific purpose language course can be called "specific purpose language competence", which is by definition a partial and weighted proficiency. The aim of this p...
No teaching is possible without clearly defined learning goals. The learning goal for a specific purpose language course can be called "specific purpose language competence", which is by definition a partial and weighted proficiency. The aim of this paper is to find out how this competence can be described. We will show that although there exists some general purpose proficiency scales, these are not suitable for a description of a specific purpose language competence. We will therefore suggest a clear distinction between proficiency scales and level descriptions and then demonstrate a procedure to formulate level descriptions based on analytic proficiency scales. (Paichai University)