The Common European Framework in its political and educational context What is the Common European Framework?

Example 1:
Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English (CAE), Paper 5: Criteria for Assessment (1991)
Test criteria
Illustrative scales
Other categories
Fluency
Fluency
Accuracy and range
General range
Vocabulary range
Grammatical accuracy
Vocabulary control
Pronunciation
Phonological control
Task achievement
Coherence
Task success
Sociolinguistic appropriacy
Need for interlocutor support
Interactive communication
Turntaking strategies
Extent and ease of maintaining 
Co-operative strategies
contribution
Thematic development
Note on other categories: In the illustrative scales, statements about task success are found in relation
to the kind of activity concerned under Communicative Activities. Extent and ease of contribution is
included under Fluency in those scales. An attempt to write and calibrate descriptors on Need for
Interlocutor Support to include in the illustrative set of scales was unsuccessful.
Example 2:
International Certificate Conference (ICC): Certificate in English for Business Purposes,
Test 2: Business Conversation (1987)
Test criteria
Illustrative scales
Other categories
Scale 1 (not named)
Sociolinguistic appropriacy
Task success
Grammatical accuracy
Vocabulary control
Scale 2 (Use of discourse 
Turntaking strategies
features to initiate and 
Co-operative strategies
maintain flow of 
Sociolinguistic appropriacy
conversation)
Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: learning, teaching, assessment
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Example 3: 
Eurocentres – Small Group Interaction Assessment (RADIO) (1987)