Welcome to the Homepage of JALT CEFR & LP SIG
and the theme CEFR in Japan and beyond
This homepage provides information on the use of
the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) (Council of Europe’s (COE), 2001), the CEFR Companion Volume (CEFR/CV; COE, 2020) and the European Language Portfolio (ELP)
and its use in Japan and beyond in the field of foreign language education. We aim to connect to practitioners in foreign language teaching in Japan, Asia and worldwide. The information provided here is from practitioners / researchers to practitioners / researchers sharing and exchanging results on the CEFR, related tools and the huge impact on the foreign language teaching world wide.
JALT CEFR & LP SIG (forming in November 2008 as JALT Framework and Language Portfolio Special Interest Group (FLP SIG), renamed to JALT CEFR & LP SIG in November 2017) had gathered interested individuals to garner ideas, discuss developments, and coordinate efforts. If you want to get involved, you are more than welcome to share. You find on the homepage information on our newsletters, publications, the CEFR Journal - research and practice and other.
JALT is an non-profit organisation, and CEFR & LP SIG is a special interest group. Our modest finances (including royals from publications) are used for SIG events, publications (including Newsletter and CEFR Journal) and this homepage, to disseminate the results. We are grateful for JSPS Kaken research funding to be able to set up and support this homepage.
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Thank you for your support in 2023. The next SIG events will be posted soon. We wish you a pleasant year-end.
This week on Friday December 8th, 2023
the JALT CEFR & LP SIG AGM (Annual General Meeting) will be held online..
All members received an individual email.
The next SIG event is planned for March 2024.
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JALT 2023 was held on November 24th - 27th, 2023 in Tsukuba
CEFR & LP SIG held a SIG Forum. Thank you for attending.
The call for the post-conference publication is open until January 7th, 2024.
For more details see here
For dates of submission and upcoming events in 2024
JALT CALL SIG (May 17-18, 2024 in Nagoya) Call for presentations open until December 19th, 2023
Pan SIG 2024 (May 24-26, 2024 in Fukui) Call for presentations open until January 14th, 2024
JALT International conference 2024 is the 50th conference! Let's celebrate!
(November 15-18, 2024 in Shizuoka) Call for presentations coming soon.
see more details on Events.
There is an archive of events in 2020, 2021 and 2022, just scroll down to archive
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CEFR Journal - Research and Practice volume 5 (December 2022) is now available, click CEFR Journal
Volume 5 (December 2022) is out! VOLUME 6 is coming soon.
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CEFR & LP SIG Newsletter no.40 is coming soon, no. 36 (October 2022) is available.
For Newsletter no. 39 is out (October, 2023)
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Learn more about JALT https://jalt.org/
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Still good NEWS - We are happy about the publication of our 4th book as a result of our kaken research project no. 16K02835:
Noriko Nagai, Gregory C. Birch, Jack Bower, Maria Gabriela Schmidt
CEFR-informed Learning, Teaching and Assessment: A Practical Guide.
Springer 2020. ISBN 9789811558931 (https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811558931).
See more details of the book on the special site here: A Practical Guide
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Congratulations: In April 2021, two more members of CEFR & LP SIG had been granted a JSPS Kaken Research project: Noriko Nagai on CLIL and Jack Bower on Placement tests.
The Kaken JSPS research project for JALT CEFR & LP is now in its second year. If you are interested in getting involved and doing action research, please contact the research team. For more details on the project Click here for Kaken 5
「アクションリサーチの手法を用いた言語教育改善: CEFRの教育理念を参考にして」
“Foreign Language Education Reform through Action Research. Putting CEFR educational principles into practice”.
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JALT CEFR & LP SIG
Coordinator
(Last update: December 6th, 2023 MGS)
