The CEFR: From Theory to Practice

Second Symposium
The CEFR: From Theory to Practice
June 11, 2015 / 9:00 – 16:00
Raymond Building, room 101, Tel Aviv University
All presentations will be in English. Admission is free. Due to limited space,
preregistration is required.
9-9:30
9:30-10
10-10:30
10:30-11:00
11:00-11:15
Registration
Opening Greetings
 Raanan Rein, Vice President of Tel Aviv University
 Moshe Zaafrani, Ministry of Education
 Jörg Klinner, Goethe-Institut
 Martine Manavella, Institut Français
The CEFR: Raising Questions in a Multilingual Era
Elana Shohamy, Tel Aviv University
Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater! Rescuing the CEFR from the Industrial Testers
Bernard Spolsky, Bar Ilan University
12:05-12:25
Coffee Break
Foreign Language Teaching: How to Avoid a Dogmatic Approach
Pierre Yves Roux
Responsable de l’unité Expertise et Projets au Département langue française du Centre International
d’Etudes Pédagogiques
Implementing the CEFR: Let's Speak Europe
Introduction and first set of videos
Jörg Klinner, Goethe-Institut; Ivonne Lerner, Instituto Cervantes; Martine Manavella, Institut
Français
Implementing the CEFR in Israeli Schools
Ofra Inbar, Tel Aviv University and Tamar Kehat, Ministry of Education, Israel
12:25-12:45
Implementing the CEFR for Arabic and Hebrew in Israel: Prospects and challenges
Iair Or, Tel-Aviv University
11:15-11:55
11:55-12:05
12:45-13:05
Implementing the CEFR in Higher Education: Update on the ECOSTAR Project
Elana Spector-Cohen, Tel Aviv University and Linda Weinberg, Braude College of Engineering
Light Lunch
Implementing the CEFR: Let's Speak Europe
13:45-13:55
Second set of videos
Issues in the Transadaptation of Documents
13:55-14:10
Ruth Fortus, National Institute for Testing and Evaluation
How the CEFR is implemented at schools in Egypt
14:10-14:40
Susanne Baumgarten, Goethe-Institut
Coffee Break
14:40-14:50
Implementing the CEFR: Let's Speak Europe
14:50-15:00
Third set of videos
The CEFR at Cultural Institutes
Jörg Klinner, Goethe-Institut; Ivonne Lerner, Instituto Cervantes; Martine Manavella, Institut
15:00-15:40
Français
General Discussion
15:40-16:00
Organizers:
Tel Aviv University - Ofra Inbar and Elana Spector-Cohen / Goethe-Institut - Jörg Klinner / Institut
Français - Martine Manavella and Alice Pasquier
13:05-13:45