NRS Descriptor Segment
GSE Learning Objective
GSE Level
CEFR Level
Individuals who are ready to exit High Adult Secondary Level are able to read fluently at the college and career readiness level of text complexity (e.g., a Lexile Measure between 1185 – 1385). This includes increasing facility with academic vocabulary and figurative language sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, and listening at the college and career readiness level. They are able to analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone. They can make logical and well-supported inferences about those complex texts.
Can recognise common discourse markers that convey emphasis in a linguistically complex text.
68
B2+ (67-75)
Can understand complex or extended metaphors in an academic text.
84
C1 (76-84)
Can critically evaluate the way in which structure, language and rhetorical devices are exploited in a work for a particular purpose and give a reasoned argument concerning their appropriateness and effectiveness. Can critically evaluate a writer's choice of words to express nuances of meaning in an argumentative text.
85
C2 (85-90)
87
C2 (85-90)
Can understand inferred meaning in formal structured text.
70
B2+ (67-75)
Can understand inferred meaning in narratives.
73
B2+ (67-75)
Can identify similar and contrasting opinions, including inferred meaning, across a range of texts.
76
C1 (76-84)
Can identify inferred meaning in a linguistically complex text.
79
C1 (76-84)
They are able to summarize the challenging ideas, concepts or processes contained within them. They are able to paraphrase texts in simpler but still accurate terms. Whether they are conducting analyses of complex primary and secondary sources in history or in scientific and technical texts, they are able to analyze how the ideas and concepts within them develop and interact.
Can summarise, comment on and discuss a wide range of factual and imaginative texts.
66
B2 (59-66)
Can synthesise information from different sources in order to give a written or oral summary.
69
B2+ (67-75)
Can extract key details from a scientific article.
70
B2+ (67-75)
Can get the gist of specialised articles and technical texts outside their field.
74
B2+ (67-75)
Can understand the use of paraphrasing in a linguistically complex academic text.
76
C1 (76-84)
Can follow the sequence of events or arguments in an extended and linguistically complex academic text.
77
C1 (76-84)
Alignment of the National Reporting System for Adult Education Standards to the Global Scale of English | 69
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