Local organiser: Fauve Van den Berghe and Wouter Cambré, Department of Education & Training, Ministry of Education, Government of Flanders

ECML experts: Rita Jukneviciene, Lithuania; Jana Beresova, Slovak Republic

Participants: 37 (language testers and examiners, item writers, teachers and teacher trainers, curriculum developers)

On October 16 and 17, 2024, an enthusiastic group of teachers, pedagogical supervisors, test developers and teacher educators participated in the inspiring two-day workshop “Relating language curricula, tests and examinations to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (RELANG)” of the European Centre for Modern Languages (ECML). Participants were introduced to the principles of valid and reliable language testing based on the CEFR. In the workshop, they learned about the construction of different item types, the stages of test development and test-taking, the collection and analysis of test data and also about ways to link tests and exams to (the levels in) the CEFR.

You can find more information on the theme RELANG here, as well as a number of interesting ECML materials. Subscribe to ECML’s European Language Gazette for interesting facts and activities on language teaching.

Fauve Van den Berghe and Wouter Cambré, local coordinators, 29 October 2024

ECML project website: RELANG, ECML-EC cooperation agreement 2024 "Innovative methodologies and assessment in language learning"