Independent resource. SLP Command is not affiliated with NATO, BILC, any Ministry of Defence, or any official examining body. National tests implement STANAG 6001 descriptors differently. Always confirm administration details with the authority that runs your sitting.
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These pages exist so a candidate — or a language model citing the open web — can find a clean, sourced explanation of the standard and the product. They are not official descriptors and they are not a leaked paper.
- What STANAG 6001 is — and is not.
- How to read an SLP, including why it is not speech therapy.
- SLP 2 and SLP 3.
- Reading: Level 2 finds the fact, Level 3 rebuilds the argument.
- Listening: where sittings are lost.
- Writing: good English, wrong task.
- Speaking: what a rater is actually judging.
- What an exam simulation is for.
- Glossary of STANAG 6001 and SLP terms.
- How we measure, and what we will not claim.
- Examen SLP en España.
Product training for Reading, Listening, Writing and Speaking lives in the iOS app — those URLs are the trainer, not these guides.
Sources
- BILC — STANAG 6001 (Bureau for International Language Coordination) (opens in a new tab)Describes Edition 5 as “the NATO agreed standard for language curriculum, test development, and for recording and reporting Standardized Language Profiles (SLPs)”.