Language course assessment: THE CEF-ESTIM GRID

Claire Tardieu (1)

1 PRISMES - PRISMES - Langues, Textes, Arts et Cultures du Monde Anglophone - EA 4398

This presentation is about the CEF-ESTIM grid, the outcome of an ECML project. CEF-ESTIM is an anglo-French acronym: CEF refers to CEFR and ESTIM to "Estimer". The CEF-ESTIM grid is an off-spring of the Dutch CEFR grid, a project financed by the Dutch government and led by Charles Alderson at Lancaster University (2003-4). The DUTCH CEFR grid is an on-line tool developed for foreign language testers and exam makers to estimate the level of a task (level of text + level of items) in listening and reading comprehension, according to the parameters of the CEFR. (see: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/projects/grid/) The CEF-ESTIM grid is an adaptation of the Dutch grid meant for ordinary language teachers to enable them to estimate the level of their class preparations. CEF-ESTIM was part of the ECML 2008-2011 programme of activities: Empowering Language Professionals.

Mots clés: CEF-ESTIM; ECML; Dutch CEF grid; assessment

Domaines: Linguistique; Education

Claire Tardieu. Language course assessment: THE CEF-ESTIM GRID. Language Assessment, Mar 2011, Russia. ⟨halshs-00669188⟩