CEFR-Tools:CEFR and LP SIG - - Newsletter No. 41

CEFR & LP SIG Newsletter No. 41 - July 2024 - Read here or download the pdf (Click here for NL41)

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CEFR & LP SIG Newsletter No. 41 – July 2024

Dear members of CEFR & LP SIG,

The spring semester is already close to the end and the summer heat starts to reign. We want to share various news items with you. Hopefully, there is a topic of interest to you.
The main contribution of NL 41 is the Featured Interview with Colin Thompson on his CEFR-informed textbooks. This connects to the interview in NL from 2019 with the first textbook at the levels A1-A2, now followed by the next textbooks ranging from levels A1-B1. See on p.3

The CEFR Journal – Volume 6 is now published with nine amazing CEFR-related studies and the deadline for Volume 7 is July 31st, 2024.
We held a CEFR Journal SnapShot Talk on June 27th, 2024, and plan to have another one in the fall.

JALT 2024 will be in Shizuoka and the CEFR LP SIG will have quite some highlights. We invited Morten Hunke (Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences) as a SIG-sponsored Featured Speaker, with two workshops.

And moreover, the CEFR LP SIG Forum will accommodate three presentations.
The Best of JALT of CEFR LP SIG chosen from 2023 is awarded at JALT 2024 to our member

Rebecca Schmidt (Miyazaki International University) for her inspiring presentation on CEFR Mediation Activities, CLIL Classes and a Notebook held at JALT 2023 in Tsukuba.
When you have a presentation, please let us know we will be happy to announce it in the next NL.

Kaken Research Proposal – Are you interested in submitting a Kaken research proposal? Are you hesitating, or not sure? We definitely recommend: GIVING IT your personal best TRY! We will hold two online workshops exclusively for our CEFR LP SIG members for preparing and submitting a Kaken research proposal:
The first will be on Sunday, July 28th from 10 am to 12 noon and the second on August 2nd from 1 pm to 3 pm. Sign up by sending an email to the SIG president.
We strongly recommend starting and conducting a research project on your own or collaboratively with other members to research and develop tools, providing evidence that the CEFR and CEFR CV is an effective and efficient tool. We will guide you through the basic steps of the application.

In this issue we look back on various events, as PanSIG 2024 held in Fukui and CEFR LP SIG had a vivid discussion at the SIG – Forum based on three impressive presentations. We will make a pre-announcement for PanSIG 2025: Planned in Chiba at KUIS on May 17-18, 2025.

This next NL41 will provide a report on the collaborative Kaken project which started in April 2020, and which ended in March 2024 with good news. The project was successfully conducted and laid the base for a solid outcome of excellent completed case studies. The resulting book proposal was accepted by Springer, and we are looking forward to the international book publication in 2024 involving eleven members of the research team: ten JALT members, nine CEFR LP SIG members and one international collaborator.

Since March we had the opportunity to hold the first CEFR Reflection Meeting on March 5th, 2024 with a very intensive and productive discussion. The themes chosen were:
(1) Reviewing and discussing the paper from the Reflection Day (held on June 15th, 2023),
(2) Exchange on the CEFR and CEFR/CV, the portfolio in one’s context.
Thanks to all participants, it was a very fruitful, sustainable exchange.
The incentive we received from the API Education Forum, an initiative promoting Action-oriented, Plurilingual and Intercultural (API) education initiated by Enrica Piccardo, Brian North and others developed further. There was a follow-up meeting on June 4th, 2024. We will keep you regularly updated on the development of setting up an organization.
The SIG AGM will be held in the fall online. SIG Members will receive an individual invitation.

We need to amend our SIG constitution. The Auditor and the Board of Directors of JALT are urging each SIG to amend their SIG constitution.

Sending you my best wishes and hopefully something will draw your attention.
Gabriela Schmidt
SIG President behalf of all officers of CEFR & LP SIG

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The Japanese translation of the
CEFR - Companion Volume
amended Version 3
is now online available and has been slightly amended and is available at the German Goethe Institute Tokyo. The text reads in Japanese:
「言語の学習、教授、評価のためのヨーロッパ共通参照枠 - 新能力記述文を伴うCEFR随伴版」（2020年欧州評議会発行Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, teaching, assessment: Companion Volume with New Descriptors）の日本語訳をこちらでご覧いただけます。
Direct download:
言語の学習、教授、評価のためのヨーロッパ共通参照枠 - 新能力記述文を伴うCEFR随伴版(PDF, 6 MB)
Related URL Goethe Institute: https://www.goethe.de/ins/jp/ja/spr/unt/ger.html#i6459003
随伴版 suihan-ban
It will be published on the COE HP, too. Please check regularly on www.coe.int/lang-cefr

(Latest update November 5th, 2024)