Rethinking the use of CEFR in Taiwan: What’s next? Jessica Wu The CEFR has been ‘borrowed’ by the Ministry of Education in Taiwan since 2005, aiming to establish a common yardstick against which learners’ English proficiency can be measured. Having been mandated in Taiwan for a decade, the CEFR has had several positive impacts as well as difficulties and problems in its application in the local education context (Chang, 2012; Wu, 2012). Therefore, it is necessary to rethink the use of the CEFR in Taiwan. The paper suggests that the CEFR has been overtly used in testing and assessment in Taiwan, but its significance in promoting transparency and coherence in language teaching and empowering autonomous learning has been overlooked. The paper argues that the current asymmetric application of the CEFR in assessment should be improved to achieve better balance between learning and assessment. While reflecting on our current use of the CEFR, a review of practices in simila...