Marco Común Europeo de Referencia para las lenguas.

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Marco Común Europeo de Referencia (MCER)

The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment, abbreviated as CEFR, is a conceptual framework created in Europe (and adopted in Colombia), which provides standards for Learning, Teaching and Assessment of languages.

The objectives of the CEFR are:

Further intensify the learning and usage of languages as a means to facilitate international communication.
Promote and facilitate cooperation of educational institutions in different countries.
Provide a sound basis for the mutual recognition of language qualifications.
Assist learners, teachers, course designers, examining bodies, and educational administrators to situate and coordinate their efforts.

The uses of the CEFR include:

1) The planning of language learning programmes in terms of:

their assumptions regarding prior knowledge;
their objectives;
their content.

2) The planning of language certification in terms of:

the content syllabus of examinations;
assessment criteria, in terms of positive achievement rather than negative deficiencies.

3) The planning of self-directed learning, including:

raising the learner’s awareness of his or her present state of knowledge;
self-setting of feasible and worthwhile objectives;
selection of materials;
self-assessment.

4) Learning programmes and certification can be:

global, bringing a learner forward in all dimensions of language proficiency and communicative competence;
modular, improving the learner’s proficiency in a restricted area for a particular purpose;
weighted, emphasizing learning in certain directions and producing a ‘profile’ in which a higher level is attained in some areas of knowledge and skill than others;
partial, taking responsibility only for certain activities and skills (e.g. reception) and leaving others aside.

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