Learner’s Milestones in Acquiring Higher Level Language Proficiency

Abstract

<p>Learning language at the higher ends of the proficiency scale differs in a number of ways from beginning and intermediate language learning. For advanced learners, linguistic factors change with increasing proficiency. So do the learners’ interests. This paper will focus on each of these two areas important to the teaching of higher levels of proficiency.</p><p>Learning language at the higher ends of the proficiency scale differs in a number of ways from beginning and intermediate language learning. For advanced learners, linguistic factors change with increasing proficiency. So do the learners’ interests. This paper will focus on each of these two areas important to the teaching of higher levels of proficiency.</p>