The first workshop of CEFR Online Workshop Series 2022 entitled "Key concepts of the CEFR Companion volume: What might these mean for teaching?" took place on Thursday, 3 February 2022.
The workshop aimed to explore key pedagogical concepts presented in the CEFR Companion volume such as the action-oriented approach, the learner as social agent, mediation, plurilingualism, etc. and the way in which these concepts relate to developments in theory. Over 150 participants had the opportunity to discuss in breakout rooms the extent to which and the manner in which different examples for classroom activities presented during in CEFR Webinar Series 2021 embody one or more of the concepts concerned.
The workshop was moderated by Dr Brian NORTH. Dr North has been a researcher and consultant to the Council of Europe since 1991 and is a former chair of Eaquals. After developing the CEFR levels and descriptors in his PhD in a Swiss National Science Foundation project, he co-authored the CEFR itself, the prototype European Language Portfolio, the manual for relating assessments to the CEFR, Eaquals’ CEFR core inventories (English and French) and the CEFR Companion Volume. Other CEFR-related projects include investigation of CEFR use in Canada and Switzerland, alignment of the Canadian Language Benchmarks to the CEFR and the ECML’s CEFR QualiMatrix. Publications include: Development of a Common Framework Scale of Language Proficiency (2000: Peter Lang); The CEFR in Practice (2014: Cambridge); Language Course Planning (with M. Angelova, E. Jarosz & R. Rossner: 2018: Oxford), and The Action-oriented Approach (with E. Piccardo, 2019: Multilingual Matters).
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Watch the Presentation (27:22)
Watch Discussion I - Social agent or actor (03:37)
Watch Discussion II - Change needs time (05:12)
Watch Discussion III - Student perspective (02:44)
Watch Discussion IV - Assessment (08:05)
Watch Discussion V - Assessment continued (06:15)
