CEFR : three tables used to introduce the Common Reference Levels The following three tables, which are used to introduce the Common Reference Levels, are summarised from the original bank of “illustrative descriptors” developed and validated for the CEFR in the Swiss National Research project described in Appendix B of the volume.
The CEFR Levels - Common European Framework of Reference for Languages ...
Global scale - Table 1 (CEFR 3.3): Common Reference levels It is desirable that the common reference points are presented in different ways for different purposes. For some purposes it will however be appropriate to summarise the set of proposed Common Reference Levels in a holistic summarized table.
The CEFR Common Reference levels are fully defined in a structured set of illustrative ‘can-do’ descriptors for many different categories. The original descriptors for both the CEFR and European Language Portfolio were based on those developed in a Swiss National Research Project while also drawing on earlier Council of Europe’s “threshold levels” specifications. The descriptors have ...
Reference Level Descriptions (RLDs) for national and regional languages provide detailed specifications of content at the different CEFR levels for a given language. These RLDs are made up of “words” of a language rather than general descriptors. Reference levels identify the forms of a given ...
One of the aims of the CEFR is to provide a starting point for the development and description of language examinations, in order to promote transparency and coherence through similar specifications and the reporting of profiles across aspects of language proficiency expressed in terms of the common reference levels defined by the CEFR descriptors.