• Elementary proficiency is the range of abilities required to communicate in common and predictable contexts and within the area of basic needs, common everyday activities and familiar topics of immediate personal relevance.

• Intermediate proficiency allows a person to participate more fully in a wider variety of contexts. It is the range of abilities required to function independently in most familiar situations of daily social, educational and work-related life experience, and in some less predictable contexts.

• Advanced proficiency (Level 3) is the range of abilities required to communicate effectively, appropriately, accurately and fluently in most contexts, topics and situations these range the from predictable, to the unfamiliar, and from general to professionally specific, in the most communicatively demanding contexts. Learners at this level have a sense of purpose and audience when communicating (including distance, politeness and formality factors, appropriate register and style, volume / length of communication), accuracy and coherence of discourse, vocabulary range and precision.