Language Proficiency Levels: STANAG SLP 2222

• Able to communicate in everyday social and routine workplace situations.
• In these situations the speaker can describe people, places, and things; narrate current, past and future activities in complete, but simple paragraphs; state facts; compare and contrast; give straightforward instructions and directions; ask and answer predictable questions.
• Can confidently handle most normal, casual conversations on concrete topics such as job procedures, family, personal background and interests, travel, current events.
• Can often elaborate in common daily communicative situations, such as personal and accommodation-related interactions; for example, can give complicated, detailed, and extensive directions and make non-routine changes in travel and other arrangements.
• Can interact with native speakers not used to speaking with non-natives, although natives may have to adjust to some limitations.
• Can combine and link sentences into paragraph-length discourse.
• Simple structures and basic grammatical relations are typically controlled, while more complex structures are used inaccurately or avoided.
• Vocabulary use is appropriate for high-frequency utterances but unusual or imprecise at other times.
• Errors in pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar may sometimes distort meaning.
• However, the individual generally speaks in a way that is appropriate to the situation, although command of the spoken language is not always firm.

SLP 2222 Reading Comprehension

• Sufficient comprehension to read simple authentic written material on familiar subjects.
• Can read straightforward, concrete, factual texts, which may include descriptions of persons, places, and things; and narration about current, past, and future events.
• Contexts include news items describing frequently recurring events, simple biographical information, social notices, routine business letters, and simple technical material intended for the general reader.
• Can read uncomplicated but authentic prose on familiar subjects that are normally presented in a predicable sequence that aids the reader in understanding.
• Can locate and understand the main ideas and details in material written for the general reader and can answer factual questions about such texts.
• Cannot draw inferences directly from the text or understand the subtleties of language surrounding factual material.
• Can readily understand prose that is predominantly constructed in high frequency sentence patterns. While active vocabulary may not be broad, the reader can use contextual and real-world cues to understand texts.
• May be slow in performing this task, and may misunderstand some information.
• May be able to summarize, sort, and locate specific information in higher level texts concerning his/her special professional field, but not consistently or reliably.

• Can write simple personal and routine workplace correspondence and related documents, such as memoranda, brief reports, and private letters, on everyday topics.
• Can state facts; give instructions; describe people, places, and things; can narrate current, past, and future activities in complete, but simple paragraphs.
• Can combine and link sentences into connected prose; paragraphs contrast with and connect to other paragraphs in reports and correspondence.
• Ideas may be roughly organized according to major points or straightforward sequencing of events.
• However, relationship of ideas may not always be clear, and transitions may be awkward.
• Prose can be understood by a native not used to reading material written by non-natives.
• Simple, high frequency grammatical structures are typically controlled, while more complex structures are used inaccurately or avoided.
• Vocabulary use is appropriate for high frequency topics, with some circumlocutions.
• Errors in grammar, vocabulary, spelling, and punctuation may sometimes distort meaning.
• However, the individual writes in a way that is generally appropriate for the occasion, although command of the written language is not always firm.