1. RELANG Relating language examinations to the common European reference levels of language proficiency: promoting quality assurance in education and facilitating mobility
Familiarisation
European Centre for Modern Languages and European Commission cooperation on Innovative Methodologies And Assessment In Language Learning

2. Familiarisation
One of five inter-related sets of procedures in the Manual:
Familiarisation
training activities based on a detailed knowledge of the CEFR, its levels and illustrative descriptors
Specification
Standardization & Benchmarking
Standard setting
Validation

3. Familiarisation
There is no absolute boundary between the end of Familiarisation and the beginning of Specification or Standardisation, in each case the first activities are a continuation of the Familiarisation process.
Sufficient awareness of the CEFR levels is needed to analyse and assess test tasks and performances in relation to the CEFR levels.
A detailed knowledge is needed of the CEFR, its levels and illustrative descriptors

4. Detailed knowledge of the CEFR
The CEFR model of language use, action-oriented approach:
Actions performed by persons - individuals and social agents
A range of competences, both general and in particular communicative language competences
Various contexts under various conditions and constraints to engage in language activities
Language processes to produce and/or receive texts in relation to themes in specific domains
Illustrative descriptors (“can-do statements”)
CEFR levels

5. Three Tasks Ordering the Common Reference Levels (global scale)
Table 1 in the CEFR: summary of the set of CEFR levels
Ordering salient characteristics of CEFR levels
CEFR section 3.6; Highlights Table 3.1
Self-assessing one’s ability in two foreign languages
Self-assessment grid: CEFR Table 2, Highlights Table 3.2

6. Salient features
This level is the lowest level of generative language use - the point at which the learner can interact in a simple way, ask and answer simple questions about themselves, where they live, people they know, and things they have, initiate and respond to simple statements in areas of immediate need or on very familiar topics, rather than relying purely on a very finite rehearsed, lexically organised repertoire of situation-specific phrases.

7. Reading B2
I can read articles and reports concerned with contemporary problems in which the writers adopt particular attitudes or viewpoints. I can understand contemporary literary prose.