34.76, FYI: Call for applications for the scientific committee of the Certificate of Language skills in French Higher Education (CLES)

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Subject: 34.76, FYI: Call for applications for the scientific committee of the Certificate of Language skills in French Higher Education (CLES)

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From: Marie-Hélène Fries [Marie-Helene.Fries at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr]
Subject: Call for applications for the scientific committee of the Certificate of Language skills in French Higher Education (CLES)


In order to strengthen the scientific basis of the Certificate of
Language skills in French Higher Education, the CLES National
Coordination is launching a call for applications with the aim of
renewing its scientific committee. This call for applications is aimed
at academics or assessment professionals who would like to be part of
the committee and bring their expertise to the CLES certification.
The Scientific Committee, led by a university professor, will be
composed of at least ten members, specialised in the fields of
assessment, linguistics or foreign language acquisition. The members
of the CLES Strategic Orientation Committee will be permanent guests.
Representatives of the Steering Committee - and in particular the
deputy directors - may also be invited as appropriate.
The CLES Scientific Committee will meet once a year, either in a
French city or by videoconference. The mission expenses of its members
will be covered by the CLES National Coordination. The two working
languages of the Scientific Committee will be English and French.

Skills and knowledge required
Members of the scientific committee are expected to bring expertise in
one or more of the areas listed below:
the Common European Framework,of References for Languages (CEFR) and
the task-based approaches
formative assessment and assessment of language skills ;
distance learning and a reflexion on the uses of pedagogical
engineering ;
language testing and certification in foreign languages ;
general and applied linguistics: this field of expertise will enable
an exchange of views between applied linguistics and language
acquisition, on the one hand, and a reflection on the language system
and language in use in general (morpho-syntax, verbal interaction,
etc.), on the other hand.

Missions
To be a source of proposals for concrete improvements to the test
formats and the test taking methods at the three levels of CLES
certification: CLES B1, CLES B2 and CLES C1;
to work in a comparative perspective in order to highlight the
strengths and weaknesses of the different certifications and to
suggest improvements for the CLES certification;
to provide a scientific perspective to guarantee the adequacy between
the CEFR level targeted by the CLES certification and the language
skills of the test takers;
to evaluate the best ways of implementing a computer-assisted version
of the CLES tests;
to make proposals concerning the correlation of CLES tests to the CEFR
levels;
to study the possibility of assessing several CEFR levels with the
same test, for example the possibility of awarding the B2 level  with
a test aimed at the C1 level. The Scientific Committee will highlight
possible changes that this new perspective implies for the current
test format;
to provide advice and proposals on the integration of an A2 level
assessment.

Conditions of application:
Please send a CV and a short motivation letter to the following two
email addresses before January 27th
coordination-nationale at certification-cles.fr
Marie-Helene.Fries at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr

Individual answers to all applicants will be sent by the end of
February 2023 at the latest.
The CLES Scientific Committee meets once a year, in person or by
videoconference. The mission expenses of the members of the Scientific
Committee are covered by the CLES National Coordination. The two
working languages of the Scientific Committee are English and French.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics




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