EFF Framework
Communication Skills
1. Read with Understanding
- Determine the reading purpose
- Select reading strategies appropriate to the purpose
- Monitor comprehension and adjust reading strategies
- Analyze the information and reflect on its underlying meaning
- Integrate it with prior knowledge to address reading purpose
2. Convey Ideas in Writing
- Determine the purpose for communicating
- Organize and present information to serve the purpose, context and audience
- Pay attention to conventions of English language usage, including grammar, spelling, and sentence structure, to minimize barriers to reader's comprehension
- Seek feedback and revise to enhance the effectiveness of the communication
3. Speak So Others Can Understand
- Determine the purpose for communicating
- Organize and relay information to effectively serve the purpose, context and listener
- Pay attention to conventions to oral English communication, including grammar, word choice, register, pace, and gesture in order to minimize barriers to listener's comprehension
- Use multiple strategies to monitor the effectiveness of the communication
4. Listen Actively
- Attend to oral information
- Clarify purpose for listening and use listening strategies appropriate to that purpose
- Monitor comprehension, adjusting listening strategies to overcome barriers to comprehension
- Integrate information from listening with prior knowledge to address listening purpose
5. Observe Critically
- Attend to visual sources of information, including television and other media
- Determine the purpose for observation and use strategies appropriate to the purpose
- Monitor comprehension and adjust strategies
- Analyze the accuracy, bias, and usefulness of the information
- Integrate it with prior knowledge to address viewing purpose
Interpersonal Skills
4. Guide Others
- Assess the needs of others and one's own ability to assist
- Use strategies for providing guidance that take into account the goals, task, context, and learning styles of others
- Arrange opportunities for learning that build on learner's strengths
- Seek feedback on the usefulness and results of the assistance
Lifelong Learning
4. Use Information and Communication Technology
- Use computers and other electronic tools to acquire, process, and manage information
- Use electronic tools to learn and practice skills
- Use the Internet to explore topics and gather information
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