For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost. Overcoming
Monolingualism 07 - Core Competencies For anyone engaged in the
process of language acquisition, some gauge of progress is a
helpful motivator to keep going, especially when one is still in
the high anxiety stages. While beginner, intermediate, advanced,
and fluent are nice categories, they are also pretty vague and
interpreted by different institutions in different ways. How
about this scale of progression: daily life competence,
relationship competence, discourse competence, native competence
(p.225). All of these competencies build on one another and yet
each of them also begins development from the very early stages
of learning. For example, from the first time a language student
learns to write a sentence, they have begun developing
“discourse competence,” yet appreciation of local poetry may not
come until extremely advanced stages. Or, after a few meetings
with a language coach the student is beginning to pick up on a
number of relational