Author: Catherine Seewald/04 June 2013/Categories: External events
This conference, held at the Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium, from 27-29 May 2013, brought together 188 language professionals – practitioners, policy makers and researchers – from 26 countries (Europe and beyond) in order to discuss the following issues related to the use of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) in language testing:
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Waldemar Martyniuk gave a keynote on the use of the Common European Framework of Reference for languages of the Council of Europe and presented the 4th medium-term programme of the ECML activities “Learning through languages. Promoting inclusive, plurilingual and intercultural education” (2012-2015). The presentation enabled to clarify the status and the function of the CEFR and to inform the audience on conclusions and recommendations provided by the recent meeting of the CEFR authors organised by the Council of Europe Language Policy Unit.
The participants of the conference surveyed before the event provided an overall positive evaluation of the CEFR as a very useful tool. In the conclusions adopted in the final session they prioritised the following actions in support of an appropriate use of the CEFR:
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