Council of Europe’s Language Policy News provides information about recent developments and upcoming events, including the relevant registration links.

2022 events include a second series of monthly Online Workshops and an international conference on 24-25 May. The workshops take place on the first Thursday of each month (apart from July and August). The Online workshops tend to “sell out” within 48 hours of the call for registration being sent out – but they are repeated a week or two later in case of sufficient additional demand.

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Common European Framework of Reference

Following the publication of the CEFR Companion Volume, the Council of Europe’s Education Department organised monthly Webinars in 2021 to help language professionals familiarise themselves with the key concepts of the CEFR and consider ways for integrating those into teaching and learning practices. Key concepts covered were action-oriented approach, digital agency in social practice and language education, plurilingualism in the classroom and engaging learners’ plurilingual and pluricultural competence, as well as mediation in relation to sign languages. The PowerPoints, video recordings, Classroom materials and Background readings from these workshops are now being made available online at www.coe.int/lang-cefr.

 

CEFR Online Workshop Series 2022 (in English or French, without interpretation) / Série d’ateliers en ligne du CECR 2022 (en anglais ou en français, sans interprétation)

 

Date, Title and Presenter

February 3 Key concepts in the CEFR Companion volume: What might these mean for teaching? Brian North

March 3 The learner as social agent: implications for curriculum design & classroom practice Bernd Rüschoff

April 7 Le Volume Complémentaire du CECR: qu’y a-t-il de nouveau pour l’enseignement des langues? Evelyne Bérard

May 5 The action-oriented approach: From theory to practice Enrica Piccardo

June 2 Assessing plurilingualism: An example from practice Belinda Steinhuber

September 1 Taking account of the CEFR Companion Volume in the national and school curriculum Daniela Fasoglio

October 6 Le Volume complémentaire du CECR : un outil pour la formation des enseignant·e·s de langues étrangères Rosanna Margonis-Pasinetti

November 3 Mediation in/for the language classroom: learning situations and formative assessment Adolfo Sánchez Cuadrado

December 1 Developing CEFR-based assessment rubrics and rating scales for interaction and production Claudia Harsch