The CEFR Companion Volume Project: What Has Been Achieved

This chapter outlines the aims of the Companion Volume project – updating the CEFR model and descriptors and addressing some misunderstandings about the CEFR – as well as outlining innovative aspects of the CEFR that are further developed in the CEFR-CV. It then considers the outcomes from the project – an accessible explanation of the CEFR vision, updated and extended CEFR descriptors, including those for mediation, online interaction, plurilingual/pluricultural competence, phonology and signing competences, the compilation of descriptors for young learners, and related reports (for mediation, phonology, the young learner compilation and the validation). It is pointed out that the new descriptors offer