CEFR Companion Volume: Enhancing engagement in language education

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REFLECTION DAY

The Reflection Day “CEFR Companion Volume: Enhancing engagement in language education” was held online on 15 June 2023 with 40 invited experts on language education policy, curriculum design and teacher education from over 20 countries in Europe and beyond. The main aims of the meeting were to build on the enormous interest in the CEFR Companion Volume and gain a better picture of how innovation inspired by the Companion Volume is occurring and what next steps might be taken to reinforce a shift from conventional language teaching to genuinely action-oriented, plurilingual and intercultural language education, as well as to address certain misunderstandings and misrepresentations regarding the CEFR Companion Volume, the CEFR project, and plurilingualism.

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Download Presentation: Theme 1 - How can the CEFRCV facilitate curriculum design for action-oriented, plurilingual and intercultural language education?

Download Presentation: Theme 2 - How can we counter common misunderstandings and misrepresentations of the CEFR?

Download Presentation: Theme 3 - How do action-orientation, mediation and plurilingualism, interrelate and align with recent developments in language education?

Download Presentation: Theme 4 - How can the CEFRCV support the creation of (digitally-mediated) collaborative learning environments in the post-Covid context?

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Watch the Presentation: Theme 1 - Curriculum.

Watch the Discussion: Theme 1 - Curriculum.

Watch the Presentation: Theme 2 - Misunderstandings.

Watch the Discussion: Theme 2 - Misunderstandings.

Watch the Presentation: Theme 3 - Action-orientation, mediation, plurilingualism.

Watch the Discussion: Theme 3 - Action-orientation, mediation, plurilingualism.

Watch the Presentation: Theme 4 - Digital post Covid.

Watch the Discussion: Theme 4 - Digital post Covid.

Online 15 June 2023

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The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, teaching, assessment – Companion volume broadens the scope of language education, reflecting academic and societal developments since the CEFR publication in 2001. It presents the key aspects of the CEFR for teaching and learning in a user-friendly form and contains the complete set of extended CEFR descriptors, replacing the 2001 set. These now include descriptors for mediation, online interaction, plurilingual/pluricultural competence, and sign language competences. The illustrative descriptors have been adapted with modality-inclusive formulations for sign languages and all descriptors are now gender-neutral.

This publication marks a crucial step in the Council of Europe’s engagement with language education, which seeks to protect linguistic and cultural diversity, promote plurilingual and intercultural education, reinforce the right to quality education for all, and enhance intercultural dialogue, social inclusion and democracy.

The new version updates and extends the CEFR 2001, which was designed to provide a transparent, coherent and comprehensive basis for the elaboration of language syllabuses and curriculum guidelines, the design of teaching and learning materials, and the assessment of foreign language proficiency.