Diagnostic & Progression
Where every learner starts and returns weekly: the assessment that sequences the four épreuves per learner, and the correction loop that breaks fossilization.
Two learners with the same DELF B2 target should not follow the same programme. One understands the radio effortlessly and freezes when asked to speak alone for five minutes; the other writes cleanly and loses the thread of a fast interview. Handing both the same march through four épreuves wastes most of both their weeks. This domain is the engine that prevents that, and it is where every learner in this discipline starts and returns.
It does two jobs. The first is measurement: a four-axis assessment across CO, PO, CE and PE that produces not a single level but four, ranked by ease of progress rather than by weakness — quick win, steady work, long game — and emits a study sequence from that ranking, re-measured every fortnight so the sequence follows you rather than a plan written in month one. The second is the correction loop, which is what fossilization actually requires: produce a short piece of French, see the gap against the target, name the error category, and re-attempt — then keep the rule alive with spaced reminders, low-stakes checkpoints every few lessons, and a weekly review that re-ranks the axes. Naming the category is the load-bearing step; an error you can name is one you can catch yourself making next time, and that is the difference between being corrected and improving.