Similarly, Van Ek, in his European-Community-wide Threshold Level syllabus specification (1973), proposes a vocabulary of 1500-2000 words as "adequate" for communication in an L2 environment. In listening, he defines the adequacy threshold as the ability to grasp the gist of utterances; and in speaking, as the ability to get a message across.
— ❐ Going it alone﹕ self-instruction in adult foreign-language learning
- *(I invented the name for this "concept")
- maybe relevant for ⌬ sbll, as a lodestone?