BELTA Day '19: Meet the Speakers: Marleen Geertsma
BELTA Day '19: Meet the Speakers: Marleen Geertsma
The CEFR: A learning ladder for the world
Marleen Geertsma
Country manager Benelux
Cambridge Assessment English
France
Talk
Room: TBA
Length: 45 minutes
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ABSTRACT
A description of the long-standing links between the Cambridge English approach to language learning and the CEFR - the Common European Framework of Reference - the leading global standard and tool for language education. A focus on the idea of progression that supports high quality language education including the new CEFR Companion Volume which extends the original 2001 CEFR publication with new scales of descriptors.
BIOGRAPHY
After having worked for 14 years as a French teacher in secondary education in the Netherlands, Marleen decided to move to Paris. She has worked for Cito (standard setting CEFR), College voor Toetsing en Examens and was the ambassador for French language in vmbo and mbo for Levende Talen in the Netherlands. Since October 2017 she started working as a country manager for Cambridge Assessment English.
