O kompetencjach użytkownika języka na poziomie C2
C2 Language User Competencies

Summary/Abstract: Language proficiency indicators (A1–C2) contained in The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (published in English and French in 2001, in Polish in 2003) are the main value and the main axis of the Council of Europe document. They were soon accepted by the recipients and applied in language-teaching methodology. Often, however, the description of skills at individual levels have been the subject of understatements and misinterpretations. This is also the case with level C2, which is often identified with the competences of an educated native speaker of a language. Iwona Janowska’s aim in this article is to give a comprehensive and updated characterization of the highest level of language proficiency, described in the CEFR (2001; 2003), and clarified and extended in the CEFR – Companion Volume (2020). Experts of the Council of Europe, while maintaining the philosophy and structure of the CEFR, modified and supplemented the descriptor scales contained in it and adapted them to the contemporary context of language use. The description of level C2 in the 2020 document has been significantly expanded in comparinson to its original version, as it contains the characteristics of new skills and competences of the language user. The results of quantitative and qualitative analyses of descriptors for the highest level of proficiency on the scale of the Council of Europe presented in the article may be helpful in creating didactic materials and exam tests.

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