The CEFR-SIG Roundtable 2025 series offers a collaborative platform for SIG members and interested practitioners from Japan and beyond to engage in discussions about their current practices and explore potential interventions for improvement. Participants are encouraged to share insights into what has been effective in their practice, including the underlying reasons and methodologies, as well as challenges encountered and their causes.
The 3rd session focuses especially on on van Lier’s (2004) perspective of language learning as a situated, dynamic, and collaborative process of sense-making. Despite the CEFR’s global recognition as a framework for language education, its foundational principles—such as viewing the learner as a social agent and adopting an action-oriented approach—are often underutilized in classroom practice. This round table offers a reinterpretation of the CEFR through an ecological lens by emphasizing the CEFR’s conceptual rather than evaluative function. Noriko Nagai will introduce this important point of view.
We will discuss how this may inform and support each one’s action research project on language teaching. We kindly invite you to the 3rd roundtable. This workshop is related to a Kaken Research project.
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