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

 

English Profile is a collaborative project between: University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations University of Cambridge Cambridge University Press University of Bedfordshire English UK British Council