The impact of the CEFR Companion Volume on university language teaching and testing

Aims and objectives of the workshop:

• Aligning language examinations to course curricula and teaching approaches and developing useful tools for assessment in your specific contexts

Content:

• Constructive alignment
• The learner / test taker as a social agent and task-based assessment (TBA)
• Test specifications
• Rubrics / rating scales
• Washback: impact on teaching and syllabus development

Expected outcomes:

• Draft examination papers aligned to your syllabi
• Test specifications aligned to your learning objectives
• Rubrics suitable to your specific context(s)
• Idea of a course syllabus for your specific module

Guest lecturers: Dr. Julia Zabala Delgado (juzadel@upv.es), Dr. Johann Fischer (johann.fischer@zess.uni-goettingen.de) and Prof. Dr. Laurent Rouveyrol (Laurent.rouveyrol@sorbonne-nouvelle.fr)