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- Title
Innovation and Reform in Course Planning, Teaching, and Assessment: The CEFR in Canada and Switzerland, A Comparative Study.
- Authors
Piccardo, Enrica; North, Brian; Maldina, Eleonora
- Abstract
Change and innovation in education require carefully thought-through procedures as well as time, and benefit both from exchanges of expertise between contexts and from quality assurance (QA) processes. A key document that stimulates change in planning, teaching, and assessment is the Council of Europe's (2001) Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). However, its innovation potential in language education has been affected by a lack of impact studies and QA procedures. This article reports on the QualiCEFR study, which aims to encourage a culture of QA in relation to planning, teaching, and assessment and to identify promising practices in those processes. The study compared CEFR implementation in Switzerland and Canada employing a mixed-methods design and a QA approach, thematically analyzing data from over 40 interviews. Results have helped to inform the development of an online tool produced in a sister project of the European Centre for Modern Languages (ECML).
- Subjects
TECHNOLOGICAL innovations; EDUCATIONAL change; COMMON European Framework of Reference for Languages (Project); COMPARATIVE studies; EUROPEAN Center for Modern Languages (Organization)
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue Canadiennne de Linguistique Appliquée, 2019, Vol 22, Issue 1, p103
- ISSN
1481-868X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7202/1060908ar