• Dr. Abdullah Arslan

  Author

• Dr. Abdullah Coskun

  Author

Investigating the foreign languages teaching policies in higher education
in Europe, it is realized that the Common European Framework of Reference for
Languages (CEFR) plays a key role in the planning and the implementation stages of
these policies. In this paper, after an introduction to the CEFR, the reports about the
CEFR-based foreign language teaching policies of some European Union countries,
such as Luxembourg, Lithuania, Estonia, Austria, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia are
summarized. Then, studies dealing with the CEFR and foreign language teaching in
higher education in Turkey are reviewed. At the end of the paper, the implications of
the CEFR in the foreign language teaching policy of the country are discussed.

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