The empirical, learner corpus-driven, description of the Spanish reference levels

Abstract

This comment about the article of Nuria de la Torre focuses on what it means as a contribution to the empirical description of the common reference levels of the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) for Spanish. The comment deeps in the absence of Spanish language in large-scale projects that currently are developing, using methodology of corpus linguistics, in order to extract criterial features and to establish relationships between the processes of second language acquisition and progression of learners along the scale of common reference levels of the CEFR.