The English Profile Network
The English Profile Network brings together the members of the English Profile project team in Cambridge and Bedfordshire with academics, curriculum specialists and other specialists working on related issues.
Specialists from around the world have been invited to join the network on the basis that they are able to contribute directly to the development of English Profile, or to provide access to data or provide critical reviews of work in progress, and two English Profile Network seminars have already taken place in Cambridge, bringing together advisors to education ministries and academics from a wide range of countries. Two further seminars will be held during 2008.
Local English Profile Networks are being established in a number of countries. These will provide a focus for discussion of key issues relating to the research questions which English Profile is investigating, as well as providing a source of additional data which can be used to test research hypotheses and make possible the closer analysis of the language skills of large groups of learners with specific first languages.
