ESOKJ 2020: nowy, zmodernizowany europejski system opisu kształcenia językowego
CEFR 2020: the new, updated Common European Framework of Reference for Languages

Summary/Abstract: The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) has been serving the linguistic community in Europe and beyond for over twenty years now. The document, published by the Language Policy Division of the Council of Europe in a draft version in 1998, and in the final English and French versions in 2001, quickly achieved the status of a standard European point of reference for foreign language learning, teaching, and proficiency assessment. Translated so far into over 40 languages (as of May 2021), the CEFR has attracted substantial interest and is now used worldwide in language policy development as well as curriculum preparation and design of teaching materials, and most often as a standard reference in foreign language proficiency testing and certification.1 In 2014, the Council of Europe commissioned a group of experts to review and supplement the original 2001 publication on the basis of experiences gained over more a dozen years of use. The paper briefly presents and comments on the results of their work, with the intention to indicate and highlight the aspects of the revised CEFR that reveal the wider educational potential of its approach, which in my opinion reach beyond the originally assumed scope related to foreign language learning, teaching, and proficiency assessment.

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