What English Profile involves?

English profile is a collaborative programme which is developed by a group of people who are part of differents and several institutions, which mainly are: the University of Cambridge, University of Bedforeshire, the Bristish Council and English UK.

What it is trying to be developed through this collaborative work is to create a objective criteria to establish a set of brenchmarks for the learning process of English as a second language. In other words, English Profile is trying to create a variety of levels to classify the learnning process of English worldwide learners. By classifying the learning process of English learners, it is possible to expect what students should be able to do at certain levels. in this way, it is likely to think in a appropiate curricula and material to work with the variety of students that each level includes.

For all previously mentioned, English Profile is working together with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, which is a set of levels that classifies the learning process of English learners, according to their usage of English. It uses letters and numbers (A1 to C2) as a propper name for each level, being in this way, A1 the very basic usage of English and C2 the most advanced usage of English (all the differents levels are: A1, A2, B1, B2, C1 and C2). Therefore, the Common Eropean framework of Reference for Languages provides to English Profile a clear and detailed criteria to achieve its goals.

Finally, I think that both of them should be used and inplemented in chilean curricula and teachers' methodology, because, as same as Corpus Linguistics, these tools are extremely useful for the improvement of the learning process of chilean students (whether for schools' or universities' students), because of their characteristics : the Common European framework of Reference for Languages gives us a clear criteria to classify the learning process of chilean English learners; and, English Profile uses this criteria to create a set of material to work with chilean English learners at the differents levels.

For further information:

http://www.englishprofile.org/