Teachers’ Attitude towards the Use and Teaching of Mediation in Language Classes

Abstract

In 2018 the Companion Volume of Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment ( CEFRCV) intro- duced the concept of mediation and defined it as an act of language that makes communication possible among people who are unable to commu- nicate with each other. This paper investigates secondary and primary school language teachers' attitudes towards the concept of mediation. The analysis takes into account qualitative and quantitative data collected within the European project T EMPLATE —TEchnology-Mediated PLurilin- gual Activities for (language) Teacher Education (https://templateplurilin- gualism.eu/). The aim of the project is to strengthen the competences of pre- and in-service language or CLIL teachers who want to implement the rec- ommendations of the Council of Europe for the use of plurilingual ap- proaches.