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CEFR ONLINE WORKSHOP SERIES 2022 | NUMBER 6

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The sixth workshop of CEFR Online Workshop Series 2022 entitled “Using the CEFR Companion volume to enhance teacher agency in school-based language curriculum making" took place on Thursday, 8 September 2022.

This workshop presented ways to raise teacher critical awareness and enhance collaborative language curriculum making with the use of the CEFR. Participants had the opportunity to bring their own curricular issues in the discussion and look at a few examples of how the CEFR scales can be used in school curriculum design, in response to specific curricular issues.

The workshop was moderated by Daniela Fasoglio. Ms Fasoglio is modern language expert at the Dutch Institute for Curriculum Development (SLO) and is responsible for national modern language curriculum reforms in Dutch secondary education. She has coordinated several CEFR dissemination and implementation activities. Her expertise includes curriculum analysis, design and evaluation, as well as development and implementation processes. She is engaged in the integration of such issues as culture, mediation and plurilingualism in language education.

Download the Handout (English version)

Download Background reading 1: CEFR Companion volume - Chapter 2 (English version)

Download Background reading 2: Understanding curriculum* (English version)

* Priestley, M. & Nieveen, N. (2020). Understanding curriculum. In: Chartered College of Teaching (ed) The Early Career Framework Handbook (pp. 135–143). London: SAGE Publishing.

Download the Presentation (English version)

Watch Presentation I (20.57 mins)

Watch Discussion I (07.03 mins)

Watch Presentation II (08.44 mins)

Watch Discussion II (07.54 mins)

Watch Presentation III (09.34 mins)

Watch Discussion III (12.10 mins)

Online 7 September 2022

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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.