General description about 06 Vietnamese language ability frameworks on listening skill

According to Circular No. 17/2015/TT-BGDĐT of the Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam, 06 Vietnamese language ability frameworks about monologue skill are prescribed as follows:

Level 1

Following very slow words with a long pause for information processing.

Level 2

-  Understanding quite enough information to carry out a specific requirement after listening to a slow and clear statement.

- Understanding simple phrases and words related to fields such as basic information on individual, family, shopping, local geography and work when the speaker slowly and clearly expresses opinions.

Level 3

- Understanding practical simple information about general subjects related to daily life or specific work, general and detailed news of speech clearly made by familiar voice.

- Understanding main points of clear speech about familiar issues often encountered in work, school, entertainment area, including short and simple stories.

Level 4

- Listening and understanding speeches with standard language made directly broadcast on radio and television about different subjects usually encountered in personal daily life, society, science, education and training; only meeting difficulty upon surrounding interference, noise, incomplete structure of text or use of idioms affecting the listening comprehension.

- Listening and understanding main ideas of speech (presented with common dialect) with complex words, specific or abstract subjects, including the discussions with contents of professional fields of the learner.

- Following speeches with expansion in addition to main contents and discussions with rational, familiar and clearly-structured subjects.

Level 5

- Following and understanding long speeches about complex and abstracts subjects when the structure of such speeches is not clear and the relationship between ideas are implicit.

- Following and understanding natural and flexible talks between Vietnamese people.

- Following and understanding abstract discussions or arguments.

- Understanding necessary information upon listening to announcements on mass media.

Level 6

- Following and understanding the specialized lectures or presentations using colloquial parlance with cultural factors or unfamiliar terminologies.

- Understanding the issues which are subtle and complex or prone to argument (like regulations, finance); even reaching the level of understanding of experts.

- Listening and understanding everything easily at the speaking rate of Vietnamese people.

View more details at Circular No. 17/2015/TT-BGDĐT of the Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam, effective from October 16, 2015.

Le Hai

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