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Welcome to English Profile – a collaborative programme to enhance the learning, teaching and assessment of English worldwide.
The aim of English Profile is to create a ‘profile’ or set of Reference Level Descriptions for English linked to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). These will provide detailed information about the language that learners can be expected to demonstrate at each level, offering a clear benchmark for progress that will inform curricula development as well as the development of courses and test material to support learners, teachers and other professionals involved in the teaching of English as a foreign language.
This site is part of the collaborative process. It gives the background to the project and the partners involved, and provides a forum for the latest research. It also gives you the chance to take part. By becoming a member of the English Profile Network, you can play a crucial role in the programme. We hope you’ll join us.
Latest stories
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Tuesday, 02 June 2009 15:31 |
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 In early April, delegates at the 43d Annual International IATEFL Conference and Exhibition in Cardiff were treated to two engaging presentations on different aspects of the English Profile programme. Professor Mike McCarthy gave a talk called ‘Changing the way the world learns English’, in which he explored how, using spoken corpora, he and his fellow researchers are analyzing learners’ acquisition of spoken fluency. In her talk ‘Making sense of words: The English Profile Wordlists project’, Annette Capel described her work producing detailed, corpus-informed lists for the first four CEF levels, and introduced the preview version of the English Profile Wordlists.
Click on the ‘read more’ button below to watch the talks.
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English Profile is currently studying written corpora to more specifically define how language is used at the six levels of the CEFR. The contextual parameters which affect writing ability have been described at each level and research teams are beginning to add exam rubrics (questions) to corpora so that, in time, they will be able to make correlations between what exams expect from learners, and the English they produce in response.
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