Since its publication in 2001,the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages:Learning,Teach-ing,Assessment has had a broad and profound impact on language teaching worldwide.The updated Companion Volume re-leased in 2020 presents to users the language proficiency system,language proficiency levels and language proficiency scales that are more suitable for contemporary language teaching,and the related content of reading ability proposed has important guiding significance for the learning,teaching and assessment of reading comprehension.By analyzing its advantages and dis-advantages,this paper attempts to reconstruct the reading ability system into a three-tier evaluation system consisting of two perspectives,eight parameters and 228 indicators.The two perspectives are the text content perspective and the learner abili-ty perspective,which respectively correspond to eight parameters,namely text type,topic type,text readability,language canonicity,knowledge ability,strategic ability,comprehension ability and proficiency level.Each parameter can be detailed into several specific indicators.The article hopes to have a positive guiding effect on the teaching,learning and ability assess-ment of reading.
CEFR(companion volume)reading comprehensionreading competencecompetence standardsreconstruc-tion of standards