Superior (W 3): Professional Proficiency writing

This is the level you need to write for professional purposes. Your writing will show good control of a full range of grammatical structures and vocabulary that will enable you to state and support your opinions. You still need to have a mother-tongue speaker check your writing for errors and style if it is important to have everything just right. In general, any errors you make should not bother mother-tongue speakers or cause miscommunication.

If there are no mother-tongue language authors, you might have to write drafts of materials for publication. It is still important to check these materials with mother-tongue speakers for accurate grammar and vocabulary. This is the level you need if you are in a situation where you need to draft translated materials.

• What you can write at Superior level
• ACTFL guidelines: Writing--Superior

• Generic module: Superior (W 3): Professional Proficiency writing
• In 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.]

Page content last modified: 16 March 1999

© 1999 SIL International