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Cambridge Hosts Fifth English Profile Seminar
20 February 2008
The Pitt Building was the venue for the fifth in a series of seminars which are shaping English Profile – the collaborative research programme building on the work of the Common European Framework of Reference.
The seminar was a truly international event, with English Profile Network members representing countries as diverse as Montenegro, Taiwan and Japan.
Attendees were able to hear about the latest progress made with the research programme and define forthcoming priorities, including an international English Profile Conference for September 2009. Project Co-ordinator Dr Svetlana Kurtes said that the level of cross-fertilisation of ideas that was evident showed that each of the three strands of the research programme was of equal importance in its contribution.
In his closing remarks, Nick Saville, Director of Research and Validation for Cambridge ESOL, said one of the seminar’s recurring themes was the focus on spoken language corpora and the need for quality data for analysis. Cambridge ESOL will be making its database of spoken language from learners available for the research project.
