Guidelines for setting writing goals

People learning a second language usually have more limited writing goals than they do for the other three skills. Achieving these goals can still be important. Read the following descriptions and decide what level will meet your writing needs in the target language.

• Novice (W 0): Prefunctional Proficiency writing
• Intermediate (W 1): Survival Proficiency writing
• Advanced (W 2): Limited Working Proficiency writing
• Superior (W 3): Professional Proficiency writing
• Distinguished (W 4): Near-Mother-Tongue Proficiency writing

• Overview module: Guidelines for setting writing goals
• In overview module: Guidelines for setting proficiency goals
• In modular book: Managing Your Language Learning Program, by Carol J. Orwig
• In bookshelf: Language Learning

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 3.5, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

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