 About Asset Languages
Asset Languages qualifications are designed to reward language skills for learners of all ages and abilities, from Primary to Adult, by measuring them against the DCSF Languages Ladder of proficiency.
The Languages Ladder is made up of six stages: Breakthrough, Preliminary, Intermediate, Advanced, Proficiency and Mastery. Each stage is further broken down into up to three smaller grades and four skill areas.
For each grade and skill there is a corresponding Can Do statement which describes what learners can do at certain levels, in terms of actual outcomes, eg: 'I can talk about my plans for the future.'
Asset Languages offers external assessment for OCR qualifications for a whole stage and teacher assessment for the grades within each stage.
Asset Languages allows learners to develop unique language profiles by separately assessing the four skill areas: listening, speaking, reading and writing - so they can concentrate on the areas that are most useful or appropriate.
The following support materials are also available. The Stage Guides are revised versions of the original Teachers' Handbooks. Click the links below to download pdf versions.
Updated July 2007
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