The new Companion Volume (CV) to the Common European Framework for Languages (CEFR) has significantly amplified importance of mediation as a plurilingual language activity within its conceptualisation communicative competence. This is be warmly welcomed positive contribution to, and acknowledgement of, increasingly superdiverse societies potential multilingual users/learners act ‘social agents’...

The paper presents the Language Input Observation Scheme I (LIOS I). LIOS was developed at University of Bozen-Bolzano during project “Observation linguistic input quality in L2 German and L3 English Italian kindergartens South Tyrol (Italy)” is adapted to Tyrolean reality multilingual, inclusive kindergartens. presented compared with Quality (IQOS, Weitz 2015) on which it based. Afterwards cor...

The goal of a recently concluded project in Switzerland was to pioneer an assessment system for lexical signs Swiss German Sign Language (Deutschschweizerische Gebärdensprache, DSGS) that relies on automatic sign language recognition. gives adult L2 learners DSGS feedback the correctness manual parameters signing (handshape, hand position, location, and movement) isolated they produce. In its i...