Using a Quality Management Approach To Specialise B2 Competence in English: A Proposal for LSP Teaching and Learning

Benchmarking comprehension exams on the CEFR a posteriori: an exploratory experiment

“…This situation has led many ESP teachers to go further than the CEFR and define their own competence criteria as a function of their students' future needs, both in their specialized fields and in international professional interactions (Braud et alii 2016). This move had led to the creation of specialized CEFR-based validation schemes targeting realistic language competences (Fries 2009;Millot 2017). It has also in some measure been reflected in the CEFR, with the addition of new descriptors in 2017, and has prompted the present study, which reports on making ESP reading comprehension exams coherent with the CEFR, through three different experiments with Master's students.…”