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Enrica Piccardo is a Professor of Applied Linguistics and Language Education at OISE – University of Toronto and the Head of the Centre for Educational Research in Languages and Literacies. She has extensive experience international in second/foreign language education research, teacher development and teaching of multiple languages. A collaborator with the Council of Europe (CoE) since 2008 and co-author of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) Companion Volume (2018), she has coordinated various international research projects both in Canada and in Europe. Her research includes language teaching approaches and curricula, multi/plurilingualism, creativity and complexity in language education, and assessment. She recently published The Action-oriented Approach: For a dynamic vision of language education (2019) Bristol: Multilingual Matters, co-authored with B. North and is presently co-editing The Routledge Handbook of Plurilingual Language Education.
Presentation topic
The new CEFR descriptors for mediation and the dynamic nature of language learning: from the conceptualization to the class
About presentation
This workshop is intended to bring participants closer to the new edition of the CEFR, the CEFR Companion Volume (Council of Europe, 2020), and to reflect on how and for what purpose the new descriptors for mediation and plurilingual/pluricultural competence can be used in language education in general and in language classrooms in particular.
After an introductions to the innovative aspects of the CEFR and the development of the newly released CEFR Companion Volume, participants will have the opportunity to work with some of the new descriptors and to reflect on how these descriptors can support the creation of scenarios enabling learners to engage in plurilingual real-life action-oriented tasks.
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