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The English Profile Programme: Background, current issues and future prospects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2010

Nick Saville
Nick Saville*
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University of Cambridge, ESOL Examinations, UKsaville.n@cambridgeesol.org, http://www.englishprofile.org/
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The EPP is a collaborative programme of interdisciplinary research, whose goal is to provide a set of Reference Level Descriptions (RLDs) for English for all six levels of the CEFR (Council of Europe 2001; Little 2006), from A1 to C2.

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Language Teaching , Volume 43 , Issue 2 , April 2010 , pp. 238 - 244
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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