Mediation, Multilingual Competence, online Interaction: Companion Volume Descriptors as CLIL Activators Tasks
Mediation, Multilingual Competence, online Interaction: Companion Volume Descriptors as CLIL Activators Tasks

Summary/Abstract: Since its official presentation in 2001, the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), an internationally recognized descriptive system for the assessment of language skills, has been a key tool in the field of language education policies launched by the Council of Europe. Nevertheless, the social and economic changes taking place in the European Union have made it necessary to revise the illustrative descriptors of the CEFR: the Mediation 2014-2017 project aimed at updating the 2001 edition and filling the gaps, especially in areas for which no descriptor scale had been provided, such as, for example, the assessment of language competence in online interaction. The main result of the Mediation project was the publication in 2018 of a kit integrating the previous version: the Companion Volume. Considering the importance of the CEFR revision process, MIUR and INDIRE have promoted in Italian schools the experimentation and application of the Companion Volume (Cinganotto 2019). This article reports some practical examples of CLIL tasks created from the new “can do” descriptors presented in the updated edition of the CEFR: the experience was carried out during the lessons of Geography and History (syllabus ICGSE) in four classes of a two-year upper secondary school (high school) during two school years (2018–19/2019–20).

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