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    The CEFR Companion Volume: Mediation and other key concepts

The CEFR Companion Volume: Mediation and other key concepts

Focus: Teacher and learner competences  Participants learn how to implement the action-oriented approach in teaching, learning and assessing languages, how to apply the principle of constructive alignment and how to align syllabi to the CEFR CV, how to address the four modes of communication in teaching and assessment, and how to create meaningful cross-linguistic and intralinguistic mediation tasks for use in teacher education and in classroom practice. Participants learn how to use the CEFR Companion Volume (CV) in their teacher education programmes and their pedagogical practices.

Objectives of the activity

To explore and practise…

  • how to design CEFR CV related modules and how to include these in language teacher education programmes;
  • how to encourage and prepare teachers to apply an action-oriented approach in their teaching and assessment practices;
  • how to motivate and prepare teachers to include mediation in their teaching and assessment practices;
  • how to select and develop effective materials for teacher education and professional development purposes
  • how to select and develop effective teaching materials, classroom activities and assessment tasks for use in teacher education and in professional development workshops.

Resources used by the ECML experts

A teaching guide with information about what mediation entails, how it can be taught and types of mediation tasks
A database with cross-linguistic mediation tasks
Modules with resources for teacher education and professional development activities as well as self-study purposes
Materials for reflection to support the implementation of key concepts of the CEFR Companion Volume
Sample teaching and assessment tasks for teacher education

Target groups

   

  • Language teachers at primary, secondary, university and vocational level
  • Teacher educators
  • Curriculum planners
  • Material developers
  • School inspectors/advisors

Working languages

Trainings can be conducted in English and French.

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ECML expert team

Johann FISCHER
Coordinator
Germany
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
johann.fischerzess.uni-goettingen.de
Maria STATHOPOULOU
Greece
Hellenic Open University
mastathopenl.uoa.gr
Magdalini LIONTOU
Finland
Oulun yliopisto
magdalini.liontououlu.fi
Sílvia MELO-PFEIFER
Germany
Universität Hamburg, Didaktik der sprachlichen und ästhetischen Fächer
silvia.melo-pfeiferuni-hamburg.de
Laurent ROUVEYROL
France
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle
Laurent.RouveyrolSorbonne-Nouvelle.fr
Barbara SAWICKA
Poland
Politechnika Poznańska
barbara.sawickaput.poznan.pl
Phyllisienne VASSALLO GAUCI
Malta
L-Università ta´ Malta
phyllisienne.gaucium.edu.mt
Julia ZABALA-DELGADO
Spain
Universitat Politècnica de València
juzadelupv.es

Request this Training and consultancy activity

Requests for a Training and consultancy activity must be submitted via the national ECML representative in the Governing Board. Educational professionals interested in a particular activity should therefore contact their national representative.