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Introduction:
Certificate In Business Language Competence (CBLC)
The course is currently only offered by OCR, and is intended as a qualification to enhance the business vocabulary and communicational ability in a business context in the target language. The qualification is designed for post-16 students who wish to acquire language skills for their work or alongside their work and need a qualification that they can take when they are ready.
It is available In:
- French, German, Spanish and Italian at Entry Level and Levels 1-3 and at Entry Level in Japanese and Russian.
The structure of the qualification enables a unit-based approach which allows candidates to work towards individual elements as stepping stones towards the full award. In order to achieve a full Certificate in Business Language Competence at a particular level, candidates must achieve all individual units at that level in the target language. Achievement of fewer than the complete set of individual units is recognised by means of a Unit Certificate per element achieved. Each Unit is assessed separately via an OCR-set test.
The CBLC is 100% externally assessed.
Topics:
Entry Level:
- Dealing with visitors to the company
- Arriving at a hotel
- Dealing with directions & signs
- Travelling on business
Level 1:
- Listening to spoken language
- Reading in the language
- Conversing with business colleagues
- Writing in the language
Levels 2 & 3:
- Listening to spoken language
- Reading in the language
- Doing business by telephone
- Conversing formally in the language (Level 2)
- Delivering prepared presentation in the language (Level 3)
- Writing in the language
Relationship With Other Qualifications:
| CBLC Levels
| National Qualifications Framework Levels
| NVQ Levels
| General Qualifications Levels
|
| OCR Level 3 CBLC
| Level 3
| Level 3 (eg. OCR level 3 NVQ language units)
| AS/A levels, AEAs
|
| OCR Level 2 CBLC
| Level 2
| Level 2 (eg. OCR level 2 NVQ language units)
| GCSE - (Grades A*-C)
|
| OCR Level 1 CBLC
| Level 1
| Level 1 (eg. OCR level 1 NVQ language units)
| GCSE - (Grades D-G)
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| OCR Entry Level CBLC
| Entry Level
| N/A
| Entry Level Certificates
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Related Links
Official OCR Website
--Uthred50 02:21, 14 June 2008 (BST)
Article by Uthred50
Redirect by Juno 22:56, 19 June 2008 (BST)
