Claim: Similar to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages that was put together by the Council of Europe, the Canadian Language Benchmarks describe ESL learners' successive levels of communicative achievement.
Evidence: Like the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages and the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines, the Canadian Language Benchmarks describe ESL learners' successive levels of communicative achievement. It was put together by the Council of Europe as the main part of the project "Language Learning for European Citizenship" between 1989 and 1996.