The CEFR organises language proficiency in six levels, A1 to C2, which can be regrouped into three broad levels: Basic User, Independent User and Proficient User, and that can be further subdivided according to the needs of the local context.

The new version updates and extends the CEFR 2001, which was designed to provide a transparent, coherent and comprehensive basis for the elaboration of language syllabuses and curriculum guidelines, the design of teaching and learning materials, and the assessment of foreign language proficiency.

The CEFR Common Reference levels are fully defined in a structured set of illustrative ‘can-do’ descriptors for many different categories.

The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, teaching, assessment (CEFR)1 is one of the best-known and most used Council of Europe policy instruments. Through the European Cultural Convention 50 European countries commit to encouraging “the study by its own nationals of the languages, history and

The CEFR: a non-prescriptive framework. As a common framework of reference, the CEFR is primarily intended as a tool for reflection, communication and empowerment. The CEFR does not tell practitioners what to do, or how to do it.

Global scale - Table 1 (CEFR 3.3): Common Reference levels It is desirable that the common reference points are presented in different ways for different purposes. For some purposes it will however be appropriate to summarise the set of proposed Common Reference Levels in a holistic summarized table.

Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, teaching, assessment. Structured overview of all CEFR scales The copyright of the descriptive scales and the illustrative scales (in all languages) reproduced in this document belongs to the Council of Europe. Publishers should ask permission prior to using these

The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, teaching, assessment (CEFR) is a key instrument for establishing a European educational space in the field of modern languages.

It is important to distinguish between the CEFR descriptors, which have been through an extensive process of validation and consultation, and supplementary descriptors, which have been developed by associations and institutions in adapting the CEFR descriptors to …

The CEFR is a concertina-like reference tool that provides categories and levels that educational professionals can expand or contract, elaborate or summarise, according to the needs of their context.