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.