The second workshop of CEFR Online Workshop Series 2023 entitled "The action-oriented approach" took place on Thursday, 2 March 2023.
From its inception, the CEFR has proposed an action-oriented approach to teaching and learning which is further developed in the CEFR Companion Volume. The CEFR and Companion Volume define the language learner/user as an individual and a social agent but also as a plurilingual and pluricultural being. The workshop presented the facets that are involved in this action-oriented approach are involved.
Actors in the field of language teaching have helped this perspective to take shape in a specific pedagogical approach and to be realized in practice.
The workshop was facilitated by Evelyne Bérard. Dr Bérard is currently a consultant and associate expert with France-Éducation-International and was previously a lecturer and the director of the Centre de Linguistique Appliquée de Besançon. She has a PhD in Linguistics and Didactics. She has carried out numerous expert and training missions abroad in the context of linguistic and educational cooperation projects in Africa, Latin America, Asia, Australia and Europe and was attaché for educational cooperation at the French Embassy in Athens. She is the co-author of several French teaching courses based on the CEFR and the author of books and articles on the teaching of French as a foreign language.
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