Session notes from English Profile project from IATEFL

I found the session on a CUP project, which I would like to share the details below, really interesting. I also foresee that future course books may very well be based on this.

Profiling A1-C2 completing the English Vocabulary Profile   by Annette Capel April 18, 2011 IATEFL Brigtonvocab

English Vocabulary Profile programme is a collaborative project by Cambridge University Press, British Council and Cambridge ESOL. It started in 2005 and is about to finish. It aims to put language (such as relevant structure and vocabulary items) into the CEFR levels by developing detailed description for each CEFR. That is to say, we will have access to the necessary grammar points to be taught as well as vocabulary items to be taught at each level (A1, A2, B1, B2 etc) quite soon. This is based on written data at the moment. They are working on the spoken data. Since it is much harder to collate, this may take some time.

They used corpus informed research based on esol exams and learner language, real language data, It is frequency based considering typical patterns. They took into account on the native speaker frequency. They also scanned other profesional documents both in  British English and American English.

The project was validated in 2010 by researchers from Miami, Tokyo, Nothingham and Cambridge Universities as well as CUP authors, editors, lexicograpghers, Cambridge ESOL item writers and developers. EFL teachers gave feedback too and amendmensts and additions were made accordingly.
Ron Martinez, from Uni of Nothingham worked on the phrases. The entries are put to the CEF levels.
The Resource will soon be available

For C levels, IELTS data and academic word list were also added.

The good news is it is open to everyone for the words beginning with d, j and k.

Just an example for the word day please follow the link: It basically shows the word day in different levels..

For more details about the project Englishprofile.org


In future, by becoming a member of English Profile Network partners, we will have access to the documents when they are ready. They only want us to contribute the project by supplying student samples. When everything is ready, I will let you know about the details.