Intellectual Skills:

• Enhanced cognitive skills leading to innovation, creativity and problem solving.
• Critical analysis applied to discourse, texts, images and events.
• Advanced listening and reading skills: the ability to scan complex texts (including audio) for gist, to synthesise information and focus on salient points.

Discipline Specific (including practical) Skills:

• Understand spoken phrases and the highest frequency vocabulary related to areas of most immediate personal relevance; catch the main point in spoken short, clear, simple messages.
• Read very short, simple texts; find specific, predictable information in simple everyday material.
• Communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar topics and activities.
• Write short, simple notes and messages relating to matters in areas of immediate needs.

Transferable Skills:

• Ability to learn additional languages for personal/employment reasons.
• Awareness of and sensitivity to diversity based on culture.
• Ability to navigate and mediate between more than one culture to interpret meaning and intent beyond the purely linguistic.
• Heightened literacy, textual analysis and oracy in mother tongue.
• Presentation skills.
• Ability to work cooperatively, as a member of a team or with a partner.
• Problem solving and the ability to look at things from multiple perspectives.