Mediation im Fremdsprachenunterricht – die neuen Deskriptoren des Gemeinsamen europäischen Referenzrahmens für Sprachen zum Bereich Mediation und ihr Potenzial für den DaF-Unterricht an polnischen Schulen

Abstract

The Companion Volume to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), published in German translation in 2020, introduces new scales and descriptors that expand and clarify some of the key concepts of the CEFR. Mediation – one of four communication modes besides reception, production and interaction – is given a prominent role in foreign language teaching and learning processes. This article tries to outline the structure of the concept of mediation as developed in the Companion volume on the basis of the new descriptors, and to discuss it in the context of current program specifications for foreign language teaching in Poland. The aim is to explore the concept’s potential for institutional teaching of German as a foreign language in Polish schools

Keywords

• mediation
• language mediation
• companion volume
• cefr
• foreign language teaching in poland