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Specifying Progression in Academic Speaking: A Keyword Analysis of CEFR-Based Proficiency Descriptors
2019
Language Assessment Quarterly
The Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR), with its illustrative scales and salient features of spoken language at the reference levels, is widely used as the base for rating scales for performance testing. If practitioners want to measure and report even small gains in proficiency, they need to adapt the descriptors to their local context and make further subdivisions. However, progression from one band to the next is often defined intuitively without much empirical support. This
doi:10.1080/15434303.2019.1689981
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