TEASIG - The CEFR CV and the Handbook: what’s in them for teachers?

The CEFR was originally published in 2001 and, more recently, in 2020, the Companion Volume to the CEFR (CEFR CV) was published with new and updated scales. However, many practitioners are still unfamiliar with how these two documents can be used to align teaching and assessment materials to the CEFR. With this in mind, the publication, 'Aligning Language Education with the CEFR: a handbook', was published.

The main objective of this webinar is to familiarise practitioners with the CEFR CV and the Handbook and to present a variety of ways to approach and use these two documents. We will start by briefly describing the objectives and the structure of the two documents, and then proceed to propose different points of entry to their content with different activities which can contribute to improve teaching and assessment in different education levels.

Speakers:

Neus Figueras

Neus Figueras started her career as a teacher of English. She lectures part-time at the University of Barcelona and has given courses and presented in universities in Spain and in different European countries, in Asia and the USA. She has been involved in a number of international projects and collaborated with the Council of Europe in the dissemination of the CEFR. She is one of the authors of the Manual for Relating examinations to the CEFR (Council of Europe, 2009) and of Aligning language education with the CEFR: a Handbook (2022). She edited, with David Little, Reflecting on the CEFR for languages and its Companion Volume (2021), published by Multilingual Matters. She was the first President (2004-7) of EALTA, and has coordinated the EALTA CEFR SIG for over 10 years.
 

Carolyn Westbrook

Carolyn Westbrook is a Test Development Researcher at the British Council. She has been involved in various test development, CEFR alignment, and language assessment literacy projects. Formerly an Associate Professor in EFL, she is a Senior Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (Advance HE) and has also worked as a teacher, teacher trainer and materials writer for over 30 years. She has a wide range of experience teaching and assessing General English, Business English, EMI, ESP, EAP and Language Assessment in Europe and the UK. She has produced publications on integrated assessment, EAP assessment, EMI, CEFR alignment and language assessment literacy.
 

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