Adapting CERF as a curriculum organizer to teacher training in Foreign Language Didactics

The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) defines levels of language proficiency. Its relevance has led to its adoption as an organizer of curricula for language learning, teaching and evaluation. For that reason it becomes a need in the training of teachers, to deepen their knowledge of language didactics. Its use can bring benefits, making it possible to align curricula, define learning outcomes and proficiency levels, relating these levels to facilitate its efficient implementation. It is, then, the objective here to unveil through curriculum organizers delimited for Foreign Language Didactics, their action-oriented pedagogical approach and its influence in training such professionals, and to map and adapt their structure to the principles of this framework. Contents, procedures and methods should aim at the integrated development of theoretical knowledge and practical teaching skills. It is a change that can significantly improve the training of language teachers.