The Theme and
Title
of the ACTFL-CEFR 2012 Symposium is
“Making Frameworks Useful"
for learners and teachers; for textbooks and
test developers; for employers,
schools, and universities; for government and non-government agencies
A Focus on Process
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Common
vision: Supporting and improving foreign language learning
Common question: How do frameworks provide answers to essential issues:
- Am I making progress?
- Do I teach effectively?
- Will I get a job?
- Will I find a person to do the job I have
effectively?
Frameworks:
How do they contribute to positive change?
- What do they need to contain?
- Descriptions of competences at various
levels (outcomes)
- Descriptions of actions needed to
acquire competences (processes)
- How do they need to be explained to make
them accessible to
- Learners and teachers
- Materials and test publishers
- Government, business, and education
- How do they need to be disseminated?
Agendas: Research, initiatives, collaborations, activities
- collaborate to make progress, not to
reduplicate efforts
- what is the work to be done, how do we go
about it?
Communication: How do you make frameworks real and useful to
- learners
- teacher education
- textbook and test publishers
- government and non-government agencies
Best practice: What are examples of good programs
Collaboration: Making progress
- ACTFL’s and CEFR’s elements of
proficiency (skills, modes, modalities)
- ACTFL’s and CEFR’s conceptualizations of
gaining proficiency
- ACTFL’s and CEFR’s impact on teaching and
learning, textbook and test development, teacher education and
educational policy
- best practice with respect to
conceptualization of the issues
- best practice with respect to
explaining the issues
- best practice with respect to
disseminating the above
- challenges, successful and not so
successful ways to overcome them
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