| A | B |
|---|
Superior - Tasks & Functions,  | Discuss topics extensively, support opinions and hypothesize. Deal with a linguistically unfamilir situation. |
Advanced - Tasks & Functions,  | Narrate and describe in major time frames and deal effectively with unanticipated complication. |
Intermediate - Tasks & Functions,  | Create with language,initiate, maintain, and bring to a close simple converdations by asking and responding to simple questions. |
Novice - Tasks & Functions,  | Communicate minimally with formulaic and rote utterances, lists and phrases. |
| Superior - Context/Content, | Most formal and informal settings. Wide range of general interest topics and some special fields of interest and expertise. |
| Advanced - Context/Content, | Most informal and some formal settings. Topics of personal and general interest. |
| Intermediate - Context/Content, | Some informal settings and a limited number of transactional situations. Predictable, familiar topics related to daily activities. |
| Novice - Context/Content, | Most common informal settings. Most common aspects of daily life. |
| Superior - Accuracy/Comprehensibility, | No patterns of errors in basic structures. Errors virtually never interfere with communication or distract the native speaker from the message. |
| Advanced - Accuracy/Comprehensibility, | Understood without difficulty by speakers unaccustomed to dealing with non-native speakers. |
| Intermediate - Accuracy/Comprehensibility, | Understood, with some repetition, by speakers accustomed to dealing with non-native speakers. |
| Novice - Accuracy/Comprehensibility, | May be difficult to understand, even for speakers accustomed to dealing with non-native speakers. |
| Superior - Text Type, | Extended discourse |
| Advanced - Text Type, | Paragraphs |
| Intermediate - Text Type, | Discrete sentences |
| Novice - Text Type, | Individual words and phrases |
