1. Reading - Understanding factual information, connections between ideas, specific details, and implied meanings. 2. Writing - Communicating ideas and opinions, organizing text with linking devices, using appropriate grammar and vocabulary, and selecting the right register and style. 3. Listening - Understanding specific information, recognizing speakers′ ideas and attitudes, identifying connections between ideas, and grasping implied meanings. 4. Speaking - Expressing a range of ideas, maintaining vocabulary and grammar control, developing responses, and demonstrating pronunciation and intonation accuracy. 5. Assessment objectives - Focus on comprehension, organization, structure, and communication effectiveness in reading, writing, listening, and speaking. 6. Language proficiency - Evaluated through clarity, coherence, vocabulary range, grammatical accuracy, and the ability to understand and convey both explicit and implicit meanings.