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Vesna Cigan

This article presents the results of research on the relationship between indicators of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in students attending higher education institutions, and their socio-demographic characteristics: the type of upper secondary educat... see more

Urška Sešek, Janez Skela, Tomi Deutsch

The European Language Portfolio (ELP) is a unique, pan-European language learning material, aimed at supporting life-long language learning and the development of learner autonomy and intercultural competences. The article outlines the ELP's origins, stru... see more

Brigita Kosevski Puljic

CEFR is a didactic framework used to describe foreign language competencies. All foreign language curricula in Slovenia refer to this framework. CEFR language proficiency levels have an influence on the testing and assessment of writing competence. In ord... see more

Andreja Retelj

The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment (CEFR) has since its inception in 2001 served as a guideline not only for teachers and students, but also for curriculum writers, test developers, and textbook author... see more

Darja Mertelj

In the teaching of foreign languages, complex-clause syntax does not seem to have had an established role over the last 20 years, especially within the communicative approach and, of course, the CEFR. It was previously part of methods which stressed forma... see more

Marija Kusevska

The aim of this paper is to look at how The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) can facilitate research of pragmatic competence development. Central to developing pragmatic competence are the language functions (or speech acts) and... see more

Pawel Sickinger, Klaus Peter Schneider

The functional and communicative perspective on language advocated in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), hides the fact that, while the CEFR programmatically emphasises the role of pragmatic competence in language learning, i... see more

Marija Spajic, Yvonne Vrhovac

The aim of the article is to present the results of a research conducted with advanced (C1 level) learners of French as a foreign language in Croatia, in which their writing competence was studied according to the CEFR descriptors. Our hypothesis was that... see more

Mateja Dagarin Fojkar

In recent years, there has been an increased focus on the teaching of reading to children, and the development of their literacy skills in their mother tongue and foreign languages.The theoretical part of the article introduces literacy, and its role with... see more

Daša Stanic

This paper investigates the treatment given to phraseological units in the teaching/learning of Italian as a foreign language. For this purpose, some textbooks of Italian based on the CEFR were analysed to determine when, how and in what contexts phraseol... see more

Mojca Jarc

In the past twenty years, the results of genre-based studies have been introduced into programmes of languages for specific purposes and even genre-based approaches have been used to teach languages for specific purposes. At the same time, the CEFR has be... see more

Nives Lenassi

The article is based on the guidelines of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFRL). It presents the results of a study aimed to determine to what extent they are taken into account in seven textbooks used for teaching business Ital... see more

Claire Bourguignon

This article shows that research on competence-oriented assessment does not meet the criteria of analytic research but is to be considered as systemic.Indeed, competence-oriented assessment is complex and marks an epistemological turning point in the fiel... see more

Karmen Pižorn

The Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) was designed with adults in mind, which is clearly reflected in the six levels encompassing a range of proficiency that represents lifelong learning. Therefore, any use of the CEFR levels as a basis for de... see more

Cvetka Sokolov

No assessment is entirely free of bias. This paper presents findings concerning the way raters in the research group evaluate the extent to which they are influenced by various types of rater bias when grading their students’ written compositions. The sou... see more

Ina Ferbežar, Nataša Pirih Svetina, Mateja Lutar

In recent years the experts at the Centre for Slovene as a Second/Foreign Language have been linking Slovene language coursebooks and examinations to the CEFR. This paper describes the complex process of aligning texts, tasks and examples of language prod... see more

Gašper Ilc, Andrej Stopar, Veronika Rot Gabrovec

The present paper draws on the report of a five-year project that aligned the Slovenian national exams in English to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, teaching, assessment (CEFR). Discussed here are the key findings of th... see more

Marjana Šifrar Kalan, Andreja Trenc

The aim of the article is to present the results of a project which tried to relate the reading comprehension test in the Spanish as a foreign language national matura exam to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). The CEFR ... see more

Silva Bratož

Prepositions are notoriously hard to learn, and frequently subject to negative transfer. In addition, prepositional meanings are commonly extended from the spatial to abstract domains and are, as a consequence, often unpredictable and arbitrary. Tradition... see more

Silvana Orel Kos

English grammars and teaching materials often fail to include references to specific discoursal and communicative functions. This facilitates the foreign language acquisition process during which learners acquire basic linguistic skills. The teaching of i... see more

Uršula Krevs Birk

In the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages international words are defined as a very important element of the linguistic and communicative competence of  multilingual speakers. The article deals with international words in German and... see more

Urška Valencic Arh

Phraseological units are common linguistic elements, which have seen an upturn in phraseological research as well as in phraseodidactics of foreign language. Phraseo­logy is used to expand the students’ vocabulary and to enhance their communicative compet... see more

Barbara Pihler Ciglic

Modality in language, one of the characteristic phenomena of the process of communication, has to do with, in the broad sense, the mindset that the speaker indicates in his words while describing, questioning, or wanting to draw attention to what he is sa... see more

Gemma Santiago Alonso

The aim of the paper is to present a semantically based approach to the teaching of the Spanish article usage from the point of view of contrastive analysis, taking into account the role of plurilingualism and the development of  the learner’s lingui... see more

Ivana Franic

In his capital work Eléments de syntaxe structurale (1959) Lucien Tesnière introduces the concept of metataxis, structural change occurring during the transition from one language to another. While focusing on structural relationships that are built upon ... see more

Alenka Kocbek

The paper proposes unlocking the potential of translation for foreign language teaching (FLT) by seeking to create synergies with the related discipline of translation science (TS). This aim is in keeping with the guidelines for language teaching provided... see more

Sabine Hoffmann, Giolo Fele

The article presents the first results of a qualitative research study on writing in a foreign language with the help of Google Translator. It examines the processes of  the construction of verbal and discursive forms during group discussion on the t... see more

Chikako Shigemori Bucar, Hyeonsook Ryu, Nagisa Moritoki Škof, Kristina Hmeljak Sangawa

Soon after the publication of the CEFR in 2001, the Association of Japanese Language Teachers in Europe (AJE) started a research project on the history of language teaching in Europe, carried out a survey of language policies in various European countries... see more

Viet anh Nguyen

In today’s globalized world, it seems necessary, or even indispensable for the teaching/learning of foreign languages to be based on international standards proposed by the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFRL). The present article ... see more

Rong Zhang Fernandez

The heterogeneous nature of the Chinese classroom is a reality in the teaching of Chinese in France, both in secondary and higher education. This heterogeneity is due to several reasons: different levels of language knowledge, different origins and backgr... see more

Ada Gruntar

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