Presented By Sanja Wagner

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How to design valid test formats to assess the progress in language learning and the level of young learner's communicative competence in mixed ability classes? By presenting examples of criteria based tasks for different skills related to CEFR levels for beginners, including speaking and mediation, I will show how to facilitate the completion of the task for the struggling learners.

About Sanja Wagner

I teach at the state comprehensive school in the north of Darmstadt near Frankfurt. I'm the head of the English department. Beside teaching English and German, I do a lot of cross-curricular work and project learning in elective subjects. I was involved in a project on how to improve the literacy skills at the Institute for in-service teaching in Frankfurt (Amt für Lehrerbildung) for five years. My special interest is to develop frameworks for improving reading strategies and fostering self-assessment with the help of checklists taken from CEFR and rubrics. As a member of BAG/GFE ( a network of professionals in teaching English chaired by dr.h.c. Christoph Edelhoff) and through collaboration with Diesterweg publishers I do a lot of workshops on the implementation of CEFR and European Language Portfolio in Germany as well as on how to foster learner autonomy and competence based teaching and learning. From 2003 to 2006 I coordinated a school development project on this issue ( Cross-cultural-creative-learning-initiative: in short "eurobrain") Through this project I met Leni Dam and Hanne Thomsen, who gave me lots of incetnives for my work. At the moment I am developing portfolio assessment sheets to go with the new course book Notting Hill Gate, published by Diesterweg, as well as test formats. I have already presented twice at IATEFL and once at TEA-SIG event in Croatia in 2007.

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