Interaction – Spoken

Interaction – Spoken

Overall spoken interactionOral interaction is understood to include both spoken interaction and live, face-to-face signing.
Advanced 2 (Mitkadamim Bet)Can engage in complex engineering-related interactions with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that facilitates regular and focused sustained discourse.
Advanced 1 (Mitkadmim Aleph)Can participate in semi-structured interactions on straightforward engineering-related matters with some fluency and spontaneity that enables regular and mostly sustained discourse.
Basic (Besisi)Can take part in structured interactions on popular engineering topics with some hesitation yet enabling brief interactions.
Pre-Basic (Trom Besisi)Can respond within structured interactions on general topics with frequent hesitation, using formulaic patterns.
Formal discussion (meeting)This scale is concerned with more formal discussion, mainly in a professional or academic context.
Advanced 2 (Mitkadamim Bet)Can actively participate in an engineering-related meeting, making relevant contributions, sustaining opinions, clarifying, asking for clarification/repetition, and responding to points using appropriate formality.
Advanced 1 (Mitkadmim Aleph)Can participate in a structured engineering-related meeting, making relevant comments, asking for clarification/repetition, and responding to points using appropriate formality.
Basic(Besisi)Can participate in a highly structured meeting, asking and answering questions, and asking for repetition using appropriate formality.
Pre-Basic (Trom Besisi)Can participate in a highly structured encounter, asking and answering questions.

Key concepts operationalized in the scale are very similar to those in informal discussion, but also include the following:

  • type of meeting and topics
  • ability to follow the discussion: from needing repetition and clarification to understanding points given prominence and keeping up with animated debate
  • ability to contribute from needing to rehearse and help with formulation to contributing freely