At a two-day International workshop organized by the European Center for Modern Languages (ECML) from Graz and Croaticum – the Center for Croatian as a Second and Foreign Language, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, and supported by the Council of Europe, on July 1 and 2, 2024, successful and well-attended workshop was held at the Faculty Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb: Connecting language curricula, tests and exams with the Common European Reference Framework (RELANG).
Croaticum hosted experts from Croatia and abroad who are engaged in teaching and evaluating the knowledge of foreign languages – linguists, philologists and experts from Italy, Poland, Kosovo, Slovenia and Croatia (from the universities of Rijeka, Split and Zagreb – professors from the Department of Phonetics, Department for Hungarianology, lecturers of the Center for Foreign Languages and teachers of Croatian and English from private and state universities and schools).
The leaders of the workshop were ECML advisors Rita Juknevičienė from Lithuania from the University of Vilnius and Gábor Szabó from Hungary from the University of Pécs.
Workshop participants created examples of tests for evaluating receptive and productive skills at different levels according to the descriptors of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages and Companion Volume, depending on the type of test takers and the type of testing. The criteria important for creating tests and evaluation criteria were presented and the need for continuous improvement in the field of testing was emphasized.
Initiative co-funded by the European Centre for Modern Languages and the European Commission
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