1. Aligning teaching, learning & assessment to the CEFR
RELANG
Aligning teaching, learning & assessment to the CEFR
Malta, 2016 – 2018/9

2. Overview Languages within the Maltese Education System
Initial steps: the start of the journey
Areas addressed in RELANG workshops
Curriculum and assessment reform – alignment of teaching, learning & assessment to the CEFR
The way forward
Stakeholders involved in the process

3. Languages in the Maltese Educational system
- Maltese and English as the language of
schooling
- Maltese as L1 and L2
- Foreign languages introduced at Primary
school level : The FLAP programme
- Foreign languages at Secondary school level

4. The starting point Workshop 1: Raising awareness on the CEFR
Discussion of levels reached in all foreign languages at secondary school level
Examinations that address the four skills
Discussion of specifications for examinations: requirements for alignment to the CEFR
Malta, February 2016

5. Aligning local examinations to the CEFR
Workshop 2:
What principles of FL testing require attention in relation to the CEFR notion of foreign language learning and language use?
- Raise item writers’ awareness of the need to align examinations to
CEFR levels
- Participants: Education Officers & Heads of Department: item writers and
evaluators
- Discussion between FL departments and analysis of examination papers at national level:
Standard setting in examinations according to CEFR level / model of language use.

6. Curriculum analysis: alignment to the CEFR
Workshop 3:
Linking LOF descriptors to the CEFR
- Analysis of LO curriculum descriptors in Fl curricula / Maltese for
migrant learners
- Developing tasks according to CEFR / LO descriptors:
designing sample items for a selection of LOs
Malta, November 2017

7. Outcomes and challenges
Discussion amongst stakeholders in FL departments on CEFR: principles, descriptors and examination specifications
Alignment of Curricula for FL according to CEFR levels A1 to B2:
Learning Outcome Framework Reform
Assessment at national level: Introduction of continuous assessment
Matsec examinations: percentages of summative and continuous assessment

8. RELANG team:
José Noijons
Jana Bérešová
Participants:
Foreign language departments – French, Italian, German, Spanish, Maltese L2
Education Officers – Directorate for Learning and Assessment Programmes, Ministry of Education & Employment
Heads of Department & other stakeholders
Alice Micallef
Directorate for Learning & Assessment Programmes
Local co-ordinator, Malta