Discriminating CEFR levels in Greek L2: a corpus-based study of young learners’ written narratives

Abstract

In line with cross-linguistic research aiming at identifying criterial features that discriminate the CEFR proficiency levels, the present study investigates language elements that are core characteristics of each proficiency level for Greek L2. It is based on a graded corpus of 150 written narratives produced by young L2 learners (aged 8-14) at levels A2 to B2. This corpus was annotated with respect to a set of features at both the sentence and discourse level, such as clause subordination, connectives, modifiers and grammatical accuracy. Statistical analysis identified certain aspects of these features that discriminate language proficiency levels in L2 Greek narratives and are put forward as criterial features. These include the frequency of dependent and centre-embedded clauses, the gradual decrease of additive and the emergence of contrastive and inferential connectives, the felicitous use of clitics, as well as the use of evaluative adverbs and adjectives.

The Model of Listening CEFR-Based Test Specification for Higher Education

“…The use of CEFR as a framework for photographing language skills was also investigated for purposes other than the development of standardized tests. Giagkou, et al (2015) examines the characteristics that can be used as criteria for distinguishing language skills at each level of the CEFR and applies them to the identification of language elements which are the main characteristics of Greek at each level.…”

Η Τουρκική Ως Δεύτερη/Ξένη Γλώσσα

“…Şanlıoğlu, 2019. Sella-Mazi & Mavropoulou, 2012 (Dulay & Bart 1974, Haznedar 1997, αλλά και της ελληνικής-Γ2 (Giagkou et al, 2015. Mavridou, 2003.…”