THE CEFR COMPANION VOLUME AND THE ACTION- ORIENTED APPROACH

This chapter is organized in two parts: Sections 1-3 concern the CEFR Companion Volume, describing briefly what it is, what it contains, the paradigm shift it seeks to foster, and how it was developed. The second part, sections 4-6, goes into more detail on the action-oriented approach, giving an overview in section 4, an explanation of the crucial concept of the social agent in section 5, and a discussion of the three key aspects of the approach - affordances, agency and collaborative tasks - in section 6.