Aim

The Specification for Junior Cycle MFL MFL
Modern Foreign Languages aims to develop communicative language proficiency broadly aligned with the A band (A1 to A2, basic user) of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, teaching, assessment ( CEFR CEFR
The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment was published by the Council of Europe in 2001. This framework of reference provides tools, guidelines, and resources to support the teaching, learning and assessment of languages. )⁵ and its Companion Volume ( CEFR CEFR
The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment was published by the Council of Europe in 2001. This framework of reference provides tools, guidelines, and resources to support the teaching, learning and assessment of languages. CV)⁶ and its descriptors. It also aims to enable students to explore the interdependence between language and culture, to develop their appreciation of the relevance of languages to their lives for personal, social, educational, vocational and leisure purposes, and to derive enjoyment from language learning.

More specifically it encourages all students to

• actively engage in language activities and tasks, developing the capacity to understand written and spoken language 
• communicate effectively and confidently in the target language in familiar contexts through a range of media
• develop their capacity to use appropriate structures and vocabulary for the purposes of communication, including written, oral, and multi-modal 
• enjoy a language-learning experience that will facilitate and encourage them to continue learning languages in future
• be reflective and autonomous in their language learning, and become actively involved in monitoring and assessing their progress    
• appreciate their own and other cultures
• develop skills that they can apply to other areas of study and to their lives.

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5.  Council of Europe (2001). Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, teaching, assessment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. The full text Text
All products of language use—oral, written, visual, or multi-modal—can be described as texts.  Texts have many different functions in social life, and differences in purpose, function and audience lead to corresponding differences in the content of messages, and in the organisation, presentation and register. is available on the Council of Europe website: https://www.coe.int/t/dg4/linguistic/Source/Framework_EN.pdf.

6. Council of Europe, (2020), Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, teaching, assessment. Available at  https://rm.coe.int/common-european-framework-of-reference-for-languages-learning-teaching/16809ea0d4