Abstract

BONDI, Marina  and  POPPI, Franca. Devising a Language Certificate for Primary School Teachers of English. profile [online]. 2007, n.8, pp.145-164. ISSN 1657-0790.

This paper sets out to examine how the Common European Framework of Reference can be employed as a useful tool for the purpose of devising a language certificate meant to assess the competence needed for effective teaching at the primary school level. To this end, the B1 level descriptors of the CEF have been re-written so as to make them correspond, as closely as possible, to the abilities actually displayed in the context of primary language teaching and they have also been referred to three different contexts of use: classroom management, professional self-development and language awareness. A tentative draft of one of the parts of the certificate meant to assess oral comprehension will be shown as the final step of a process which started with the definition of the profile of the foreign language teacher.

Keywords : Language proficiency certificate; descriptors; Common European Framework of Reference; foreign language teaching in primary schools.

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