COMMON EUROPEAN FRAMEWORK OF REFERENCE FOR

LANGUAGES

THE INTERNATIONAL STANDARD FOR DESCRIBING AND COMPARING

LANGUAGE ABILITY IN ANY LANGUAGE
 A REVOLUTION OF GRADING
>TRADITIONAL METHODS USE VAGUE A, B, C’S GRADE WHICH DOESN’T
REFLECT THE OVERRALL ABILITY OF A STUDENT.
>CEFR USES A SET OF “CAN DO” STATEMENTS IN EACH LEVEL TO DESCRIBE
LEARNERS ABILITY IN THE REAL WORLD

A1, A2 (BEGINNER)
B1, B2 (INDEPENDENT)
C1, C2 (PROFICIENT)

B1 STUDENT IN A SCHOOL HAS APPROXIMATELY THE SAME ABILITY AS A B1

STUDENT IN ANOTHER SCHOOL,IN ANY COUNTRY
 WOW,SUCH CLAIM

YES

DESIGNED TO BE FAIR AND ACCURRATE FOR OVER 100 YEARS OF

DEVELOPMENT BY CAMBRIDGE AND HIGHLY INFLUENTAL ACROSS THE
GLOBE

A REFERENCE TO MANY MAJOR SIGNIFICANT EXAMINATIONS GLOBALLY

 CEFR IN MALAYSIA

MAIN REFERENCE NOT AN EXAM

ENGLISH DSKP IS EXAMS ARE BUILT
DESIGNED REFERRING IT REFERRING IT

COMPARISON COMPARISON
NOT TO ANY NATIVE SPEAKER ONLY TO THE CEFR
OR ANOTHER STUDENT SCALE
 MODULAR ASESSMENT

RECEPTION RECEPTION PRODUCTION PRODUCTION

LISTENING READING SPEAKING WRITING

 MEDIATION

TRANSLATING INTERPRETING
DESCRIBING MEANING DESCRIBING MAIN
FROM L2 TO L1 AND VICE CONCEPT OF A LONG
VERSA INFORMATION SET
GIVEN