Research Paper: ‘A Validation Study of the CEFR Levels of Phrasal Verbs in the English Vocabulary Profile’ by Masashi Negishia, Yukio Tonoa and Yoshihito Fujitaa

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Abstract

This article reports on a part of the development and validation project for the English Vocabulary Profile (EVP). The previous version of the EVP included 439 phrasal verbs as well as 4,666 individual word entries. Each of their meanings is ordered according to its CEFR level. The aims of the study are to identify the actual difficulty of each phrasal verb, to validate the tentative decision of the CEFR levels, and also to explore factors that explain the difficulties, by using textbook corpora. In order to carry out this research, we developed a phrasal verb test of 100 items, consisting of four A1 items, nineteen A2 items, forty B1 items and thirty-seven B2 items.

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Webinar Replay: Supporting and exploiting student-generated videos

[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 9 | June 6, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] Last November, Anna Whitcher’s webinar Putting Students in the Director’s Chair looked at the practicalities of how teachers can use video…

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Developing the Guess What! characters (Cambridge Conversations)

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Andrea Sarto says, “As an illustrator it is interesting (and often cringe-inducing) to look back and observe the evolution of my drawing style over the years. Usually it’s a steady progression with the odd experiment thrown in but Guess What! was possibly the most dramatic shift in my style in recent memory.

My original approach to the characters (above) was very typical of the work I was producing at the time, cartoony with black outlines, flat colours and simple shading. I was given a nice, clear brief describing their main features and I was quite happy with my initial designs, though in retrospect the eyes were a bit googly. I thought, for a robot, iPal was particularly cute. The comments at this stage were to make David and Olivia’s hair less old-fashioned (a bit alarming as David’s hairstyle was based on my son’s!), a few clothing adjustments and to change iPal’s eyes to be more robotic. However the main request was to make the colouring and shading more 3D.

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