Common Framework of Reference for Intercultural Digital Literacies

The Common Framework of Reference for Intercultural Digital Literacies (CFRIDiL) is an adaptation and expansion of both the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment (CEFR) and the Digital Competence Framework for Citizens (DigComp 2.0). CFRIDIL is a comprehensive set of guidelines to systematically describe levels of proficiency for students and European citizens across Europe and other countries. It describes what a successful digital literate European citizen must be able to do and understand in transnational digital environment. CFRIDiL is divided into broad level groups, sub-divided into further levels, from breakthrough to proficiency. For each level, it includes descriptors which tells what a learner is supposed to be able to do in receptive and productive skills, in terms of digital literacy in international and intercultural contexts. These systematic descriptors deal with the comprehension, production, and interpretation of the contemporary digital textuality for international and intercultural communication. If CEFR descriptors illustrate language skills, and DigComp 2.0 descriptors illustrate digital skills as such, CFRIDiL descriptors focus on skills that include consideration of visual and auditory resources afforded in digital environments in relation to their meaning-making potential in international and intercultural contexts instead, hence including more comprehensive multimodal, sociosemiotic and critical skills that take into consideration the expectations of socioculturally diverse audience and contexts.