The CEFR and the CEFR-CV in Modern Greek language education
Vicky Kantzou, Άnna Mouti · 2024
The Common European Framework for Languages (CEFR) has had a major impact on language education and assessment in Europe and beyond and has influenced, accordingly, Modern Greek (MG) language education. The aim of this chapter is twofold. First, we give an overview of the influence of the CEFR and its Companion Volume (CEFR-CV) on MG language education and assessment, and more particularly, on the planning and development of curricula/syllabi, the design of materials and the definition of standards and examinations for MG as a second language (L2). Secondly, we present a study on MG language teachers’ perceptions regarding the CEFR and CEFR-CV; for the needs of our study, we adapted questionnaire to collect the necessary data. Our findings show that more than 20 years after its launch, MG language teachers’ knowledge of and familiarity with the CEFR is limited, while the CEFR-CV remains almost unknown to most of them.