A Flemish state would probably choose English as its EU language.ANDRÉ MONTEYNEBrusselsSIR Europe's common language should be Esperanto.
The CEFR provides "a common basis for the elaboration of language syllabuses, curriculum guidelines, examinations, textbooks, etc. across Europe" (Council of Europe 2001, p. 1).
Can Europe, will Europe make them welcome?
And again in 2009, the Council of Europe 2009 published Relating Language Examinations to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment (CEFR), which provides further material on maintaining standards across languages, contexts, and administrations by exploiting teacher judgment and IRT scaling.
The Language Rich Europe report was led by the British Council and funded by the European Commission.
It defines productive and receptive levels for different dimensions of language competence and it describes in detail which skills learners have to master in order to communicate successfully in a given language (Council of Europe 2001).
"I'm a languages teacher and pro-Europe but I want everyone to have the chance to say what they think; I would like to have a referendum and everyone can vote to stay in".
Following two draft versions (Council of Europe 1996a, 1996b), the Council of Europe officially published the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) in 2001 (Council of Europe 2001).
Initiated as a means to encourage "language learning for European citizenship" (Council of Europe 2001), the CEFR was intended to be a common credit system for adult language learners in Europe.
The success in reaching some 180 000 MSM via the Internet in three months, Europe-wide, in 38 countries and 25 languages, in this study indicates the potential of this medium and for region-wide rather than country-wide approaches.
The move follows UK and German launches which technically makes it the only local review site with a pan-Europe footprint in local language.
