WebCEF - 'Collaborative assessment of oral language proficiency'
Duration and funding programme
The WebCEF project runs from October 2006 till September 2009 and is funded under the Socrates - Minerva programme of the European Commission (Directorate-General for Education and Culture) and with the support of the Education, Audiovisual & Culture Exectuive Agency (EACEA).
Objectives The main objectives of the project are
bringing teaching staff across Europe together,
providing them with a community where their assessments can be validated by their colleagues and
providing them and their pupils with tools to provide and share annotated video and audio materials on the internet.
The main activities in WebCEF are
the development of a didactic model,
the collection and joint analysis of oral proficiency samples supported by new and easily accessible technologies and
the creation and maintenance of a European community-of-practice of teaching staff and pupils.
The WebCEF project also explores the use of Web 2.0 developments in language learning
Expected outputs The outputs include
the didactic model and a mindbook (manual) integrated in an EPSS (Electronic Performance Support System),
an oral proficiency-specific database of validated and annotated video and audio samples,
a pro-active community-of-practice geared towards European language teachers, teacher educators and teacher trainees,
and a pedagogically-justified rationale for future foreign language education assessment.
Partners
The WebCEF project is an initiative of a consortium of eight educational institutions and organisations across Europe.
1. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Catholic University of Leuven)
2. Technische Universität Dresden
3. Université de Savoie (University of Savoy), Languages Research Group
4. Fontys University of Applied Science (Fontys Hogescholen)
5. Uniwersytet ?ódzki –Lodz University
6. University of Helsinki, Department of Applied Sciences of Education (DASE)
7. Euneos
8. The Open University, United Kingdom
