Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment. Companion Volume with new descriptors

Strasbourg: Council of Europe Publishing, 2018. — 235 p.The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, teaching, assessment - Companion Volume which updates the CEFR 2001. The CEFR 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. The CEFR describes foreign language proficiency at six levels: A1 and A2, B1 and B2, C1 and C2. It also defines three ‘plus’ levels (A2+, B1+, B2+)Common Reference Levels
Global scale
Self-assessment grid
Qualitative aspects of spoken language use
Illustrative scales
Communicative Activities:
Reception Spoken Overall Listening Comprehension
Understanding Interaction between Native Speakers.
Listening as a Member of a Live Audience
Listening to Announcements & Instructions
Listening to Radio & Audio Recordings
Audio/Visual Watching TV & Film
Written Overall Reading Comprehension
Reading Correspondence
Reading for Orientation
Reading for Information and Argument
Reading Instructions
Interaction Spoken Overall Spoken Interaction
Understanding a Native Speaker Interlocutor
Conversation
Informal Discussion
Formal Discussion (Meetings)
Goal-oriented Co-operation
Obtaining Goods and Services
Information Exchange
Interviewing & Being Interviewed
Written Overall Written Interaction
Correspondence
Notes, Messages & Forms
Production Spoken Overall Spoken Production
Sustained Monologue: Describing Experience
Sustained Monologue: Putting a Case (e.g. Debate)
Public Announcements
Addressing Audiences
Written Overall Written Production
Creative Writing
Writing Reports and Essays
Communication Strategies
Reception Identifying Cues and Inferring
Interaction Taking the Floor (Turntaking)
Co-operating
Asking for Clarification
Production Planning
Compensating
Monitoring and Repair
Working with Text
Text Notetaking in Seminars and Lectures
Processing Text
Communicative Language Competence
Linguistic Range
General Range
Vocabulary Range
Control
Grammatical Accuracy
Vocabulary Control
Phonological Control
Orthographic Control
Sociolinguistic
Sociolinguistic
Pragmatic
Flexibility
Taking the Floor (Turntaking) – repeated
Thematic Development
Coherence
Propositional Precision
Spoken Fluency
Appendix: The hierarchy of scales