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 to dessiminate the research results.
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2025 provides good opportunities to learn and share about the CEFR:
Dates of submission and upcoming events see here or go to Events
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B r e a k i n g N E W S
November 20th, 2024 our masterpiece has been published:
We are happy to announce the publication of
Putting the CEFR into Practice Through Action Research
Reflecting on Principles for Foreign Language Teaching
Gregory Birch, Noriko Nagai, Maria Gabriela Schmidt, Jack V. Bower (Editors, Authors)
Mark de Boer, Dmitri Leontjev, Rebecca Schmidt, Engel Villareal, Paul Wicking, Takanori Omura, Colin Rundle (Authors)
Neus Figueras, Brian North, David Little, Fergus O'Dwyer (Guest Commentators)
Springer: Singapore, 2024
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-97-7545-3
A journey that started in 2020 and took five years of continuous and dedicated work has been completed.
We are proud of this accomplishment in JALT and in CEFR & LP SIG.
From the contributing authors, eleven are JALT members and five are international guest scholars.
Nine are CEFR & LP SIG members, the four editors are officers of CEFR LP SIG.
We thank all attendees at our workshops, presentations and everyone who supported us throughout that journey.
See more at books overview and at Putting-the-CEFR-into-Practice-Through-Action-Research - click here
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☆☆☆☆☆ JALT becomes 50 years old as group and organization ☆☆☆☆☆
and
and JALT International Conference 2025 is the 51st conference!
Let's celebrated! Thank you for joining us.
October 31st, 2025 (Fri) - November 2nd (Sun), 2025 - A 3 Day conference in downtown TOKYO, in Yoyogi!!!
See CEFR & LP SIG related events and click here.
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CEFR Journal - Research and Practice
Volume 6 is available now:
click on CEFR Journal volume 6
The first Snapshot Talk was held on Thursday, June 27th, 2024 and a great success.
We plan a second Snapshot Talk at the end of July. Stay tuned.
Call for CEFR Journal - Research and Practice Volume 7 will be published in March/April 2025.
Volume 8 will be a special edition and we accept submissions for Volume 9 (2026).
CEFR Journal - Research and Practice volume 6 (February 2024) is available, click CEFR Journal
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CEFR & LP SIG Newsletter no. 42 is published (November 2024)
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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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The Kaken JSPS research project for JALT CEFR & LP is in its last (extended) year. The outcome has been submitted for book publication.
「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: March 15th, 2025 MGS)
