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CEFR ONLINE WORKSHOP SERIES 2023 | NUMBER 2
The action-oriented approach

The second workshop of CEFR Online Workshop Series 2023 entitled "The action-oriented approach" took place on Thursday, 2 March 2023.

From its inception, the CEFR has proposed an action-oriented approach to teaching and learning which is further developed in the CEFR Companion Volume. The CEFR and Companion Volume define the language learner/user as an individual and a social agent but also as a plurilingual and pluricultural being. The workshop presented the facets that are involved in this action-oriented approach are involved.

Actors in the field of language teaching have helped this perspective to take shape in a specific pedagogical approach and to be realized in practice.

The workshop was facilitated by Evelyne Bérard. Dr Bérard is currently a consultant and associate expert with France-Éducation-International and was previously a lecturer and the director of the Centre de Linguistique Appliquée de Besançon. She has a PhD in Linguistics and Didactics. She has carried out numerous expert and training missions abroad in the context of linguistic and educational cooperation projects in Africa, Latin America, Asia, Australia and Europe and was attaché for educational cooperation at the French Embassy in Athens. She is the co-author of several French teaching courses based on the CEFR and the author of books and articles on the teaching of French as a foreign language.


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Online 2 March 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.

The CEFR online :

CEFR - Companion volume (2020)

CEFR Descriptors (Searchable)

French version (Version française)

Arabic version (النسخة العربية)

Basque version (Euskarazko bertsioa)

Italian version (Versione italiana)

Spanish version (Versión en español)

Turkish version (Türkçe versiyonu)

International Sign Language (Translated from the Orginal version)

CEFR (2001)

Language Policy Portal

www.coe.int/lang

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