the C.E.F.: its teaching potential and the application of its contents to FLT issues such as:
syllabus design
development of learners' productive, receptive, interactive and mediating skills with particular emphasis on the oral component
identifying descriptors for the expected outcomes
devising tasks suitable to descriptors
assessment and certification of final outcomes
difference between teaching unit-based syllabuses and modular
syllabuses
principles underlying the proposal of a Portfolio of Language Competences for learners and related issues still to be resolved format, validation, role of learners/teachers/institutions, etc.)
teaching and learning possibilities offered by N.I.C.T., with particular reference to the use of ready-made multimedia products, the teaching and learning processes involved in the use of authoring programs, the enormous potential of the Internet as a source of information and as a means to develop learners' linguistic and communicative abilities (through e-mailing, messaging, real time "chatting" etc.)