COE01 IESOL

INTERNATIONAL ESOL DIPLOMA

Certified by City & Guilds Institute

The ESOL qualification is available at six levels, benchmarked to the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR).  Assessment is by a single exam paper which covers Listening, Reading and Writing.

On completion of the 6 levels students need to complete the the International Spoken ESOl to compete the International Diploma.

6 Levels alligned

LEVELS

Preliminary  

1. Learner can understand and use familiar everyday expressions and very basic phrases satisfying practical needs in connection with education, training and social roles.
2. Can introduce him/herself and others and can ask and answer questions about personal details such as possessions, address and people known.
3. Can interact in a simple way provided the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.
4. Can read and understand short texts on familiar topics and obtain information from common signs and symbols.
5. Can write short simple phrases and sentences in documents such as forms, lists and messages.

Access

1. Learner can understand sentences and frequently-used expressions related to areas of most immediate relevance such as basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment, education, training and social roles.
2. Can communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a direct exchange of information, feelings and opinions on familiar and routine matters.
3. Can engage in conversation to establish shared understanding about familiar topics. 
4. Can read, understand and obtain information from short documents, familiar sources, signs and symbols.
5. Can write to communicate with some awareness of the intended audience.

Achiever

1. Learner can understand the main points of clear standard communication on matters regularly encountered in social roles, work, school, leisure, education and training.
2. Can convey information, feelings and opinions on familiar topics, using appropriate formality.
3. Can engage in discussion in a familiar situation making relevant points and responding to reach a shared understanding. 
4. Can deal with most situations likely to arise whilst travelling in an area where the language is spoken.
5. Can produce a simple connected text on topics which are familiar or of personal interest, adapting to the intended audience.
6. Can describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes and ambitions and briefly give explanations for opinions and plans.

Communicator

1. Learner can understand the main ideas of complex communication on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialisation.
2. Can communicate with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes interaction quite possible without strain for either party.
3. Can adapt to take account of the listener(s), the context and the medium.
4. Can engage in discussion in familiar and unfamiliar situations making clear and relevant contributions.
5. Can obtain information from different sources.
6. Can communicate clearly and in detail on a wide range of subjects and explain a viewpoint giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options, varying length, format and style appropriate to purpose and audience.

Expert

1. Learner can understand a wide range of demanding longer texts, both written and spoken, and recognise implicit meaning.
2. Can use the language fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions.
3. Can respond to extended information and narratives; follow detailed explanations and complex instructions, adapting response to audience, medium and context.
4. Can engage in discussion in a variety of situations making clear and effective contributions.
5. Can use language flexibly and understand a range of texts of varying complexity and length for social, academic and professional purposes.
6. Can produce clear well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, showing controlled use of organisational patterns, connectors and cohesive devices.
7. Can communicate ideas and opinions effectively, using length, format and style appropriate to purpose, content and audience.

Mastery

1. Learner can understand with ease virtually everything heard or read.
2. Can summarise information from different spoken or written sources, reconstructing arguments and accounts in a coherent presentation.
3. Can express him/herself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in more complex situations.

The City & Guilds International Spoken ESOL examinations offer a comprehensive test of spoken English which can either be a stand-alone examination or a complement to the International ESOL (reading, writing and listening) examination.

Who are the qualifications intended for?

1. • Non-native speakers of English worldwide
2. • Young people or adults attending an English course either in the UK or overseas
3. • Students learning English as part of their school or college curriculum
4. • People needing English for their everyday or working life
5. • Learners who require externally recognised certification of their levels in English
6. • Those who are attending courses over a period and require a series of graded examinations which provide steps up in the ladder of proficiency
7. • Learners attending short courses in English

International Spoken ESOL is an oral examination consisting of a one-to-one interview conducted by an invigilator appointed by the centre