Research Notes focus on English Profile
The latest edition of Cambridge ESOL’s publication Research Notes focuses on English Profile.
In the introductory article, Programme Co-ordinator Svetlana Kurtes and Cambridge ESOL Director Nick Saville describe the beginnings of English Profile, the current programmes of research and also look to its final outcomes. Other articles include:
- Aligning English Profile research data to the CEFR
- Presenting the English Profile Programme: in search of criterial features
- Challenges to parsing English text: the language of non-native speakers
- Building new corpora for English Profile
- English Profile: functional progression in materials for ELT
- Language pedagogy in an era of standards
- Arguing in English and Spanish: a corpus study of stance
- Directness, imposition and politeness in English and Russian
Research Notes 33, can be downloaded free from: www.cambridgeesol.org/rs_notes/rs_nts33.pdf
