Research-backed learning guide
The planned Catalan curriculum
A transparent A1–C2 Catalan curriculum designed around real communicative tasks, regional awareness and the official European framework.
A strong Catalan curriculum should build the ability to participate in Catalan-speaking life while respecting the language’s regional breadth. CEFR levels describe what a learner can do; they do not prescribe one teaching method.
Catalan levels at a glance
A1–A2: enter everyday Catalan
Learners work on greetings, personal information, neighbourhoods, services, food, schedules and social invitations. Pronunciation focuses on the chosen regional model, while receptive tasks introduce labelled variation. Grammar supports tasks: articles and agreement, present tense, questions, negation, pronouns in frequent chunks and immediate future.
The CPNL’s ARA beginner material provides a useful benchmark: its A1 course is communicative, task-oriented, focused on oral language and organised around everyday situations.
B1–B2: participate independently
Topics widen to work, study, public services, media, relationships and community life. Learners narrate, explain opinions, write connected messages and follow speakers beyond carefully graded audio. The course makes pronoun combinations and past narration usable through repeated communicative contexts.
C1–C2: adapt language and identity
Advanced modules develop formal writing, professional and academic genres, rhetoric, idiom, humour and sociolinguistic judgement. Learners deepen knowledge of multiple territories and choose forms appropriately without treating natural variation as a problem to erase.
How the framework is used
The Catalan-language CEFR adaptation explains that the framework offers common bases for objectives, content and methods while not prescribing one single methodology. That distinction matters: alignment guides outcomes, while learner testing determines whether a particular sequence works. Read the official Catalan CEFR resource.
Questions learners ask
Frequently asked questions
Are Catalan certificates aligned with CEFR?
Yes. Official Catalan certification follows the European framework, though level naming conventions may also use terms such as elemental or intermedi.
Will the course teach Valencian?
The initial concept uses Central Catalan as a listening foundation while teaching variation. A dedicated Valencian path would require appropriate speakers and review.
How will speaking be assessed?
The proposed model uses short task-based recordings and interactions alongside retrieval data—not lesson completion alone.