Literatur im Gemeinsamen europäischen Referenzrahmen: zur Auswahl eines Katalogs für freies Lesen im Bereich des Deutschen als Fremdsprache

Abstract

The companion to the CEFR includes three scales for understanding creative and literary texts. This article gives a critical discussion of the indicators and illustrates the use of the scales in concrete contexts using the example of the ERASMUS+ project “Developing Teaching Competencies for Extensive Reading Programmes” (LEELU), in which the CEFR criteria are analysed using the example of the cata-logue of books compiled in the project. The discussion concludes that the CEFR can be used for self-evaluation when reading literary texts and can support the selection of texts in spite of the fact that the CEFR does not include the categories reading experience and literary competence.