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CALM seminar: The CEFR at 20: What have we gained from it?
March 31, 2022 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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CALM seminar: The CEFR at 20: What have we gained from it?
Dr Dorothy Ní Uigín, NUI Galway
The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages was developed by the Council of Europe in the 1990s and published officially in 2001, with its principal aim being to establish transparency in language competency. While the CEFR is widely used throughout Europe and beyond, it is on occasion over-simplified, with people focusing on the one-page, six-level grid (A1 – C2) that describes the Framework, without really interrogating how it can be best used in language testing and assessment, and in authentic language learning. This talk hopes to move beyond the ‘grid’, and will focus on three aspects in particular of the CEFR and its influence over the past 20 years: language testing and self-assessment; language and cultural competences and lesser-spoken / heritage languages and the Framework. This investigation will help us to answer the question posed in the title of the talk: what have we gained from the CEFR?
Biographical Note
Dr Dorothy Ní Uigín is the Director of the Teaching of Irish in Acadamh na hOllscolaíochta Gaeilge, NUI Galway, where the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) was first adopted for Irish-language courses in 2005. She has a particular interest in language acquisition, translation, academic writing and integrity, as well as bilingualism and biculturalism. She has also published widely on the history of Irish-language journalism.
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Please register at: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GU5GccVmSY24sZsQSS1-Zw
