Aspects of the intercultural in three European projects related to the Common European Framework of Reference.

International audience ; The Common European Framework of Reference: Learning, teaching, assessment for Languages (henceforth CEFR) may be said to have been received with as much enthusiasm as defiance. On the one hand, it plays a harmonising role by setting a number of “competencies (knowledge, skills, attitudes) which language users build up in the course of their experience of language use and which enable them to meet the challenges of communication across language and cultural boundaries (.).” (CEFR xii) On the other hand, it purports to promote diversity in various aspects: -diversity of... Mehr ...