Task 2 answer

English Profile is a collaborative research programme which was created to give a set of Reference Level Descriptions for English. This research programme investigates the way people learn a language and also organizes the kind of knowledge learners must have at a certain level of this language.

The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages is an assessing guideline that is used to describe the content people have successfully learned, about an European foreign language, according to their level. These levels are divided into: A1 Breakthrough, A2 Waystage, B1 Threshold, B2 Vantage, C1 Effective Operational Proficiency, and C2 Mastery. Common Eropean Framework is the old version of English Profile. They both work together as a group in order to provide descriptions of the grammar, vocabulary and functions, the learners need to know to master a certain language level, and also an appropriate method of assessing and teaching.

I think both English Profile and Common European Framework should be implemented in our country, because we really need as students and educators an objectibe way of learning an teaching a language. Chilean education in general just keeps using rudimentary methods to teach in schools, which are useless to acquire a foreign language for real. That´s why we have not improved our quality of education. We must consider the English subject as an opportunity to learn a foreign language and not as something, in which students have to learn some content by heart to be graded by their teachers.

Words:
-Word: "knowledge". Knowledge of language is acquired by such mechanisms as conditioning, association, practice in exercising skills, etc.
-Meaning: The psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning.
-G. info: noun.
-Example: Moral realism conflicts with the knowledge that we possess about the world.
-Personal e.g: Knowledge needs to be acquired through experience.
-Other: idiom. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing: knowing a little about something tempts one to overestimate one´s abilities.

-Word: "language". Use of language is exercise of the skills that have been mastered.
-Meaning: The mental faculty or power of vocal communication.
-G. info: noun.
-Example: Language sets homo sapiens apart from all other animals.
-Personal e.g: A linguist is a person who really knows what language is.

-Word: "research". The fourth question remains on the horizons of research.
-Meaning: Systematic investigation to establish facts.
-G. info: noun/intransitive-transitive verb-regular.
-Collocations: research into/on.
-Example: This article is well researched.
-Personal e.g: I need to research on children´s behavior for my psychology report.

-Word: "discipline". As a theoretical discipline, linguistics was devoted to devising principles of analysis that could be used to provide an organized and systematic account of the elements of a language.
-Meaning: Training to improve strength or self-control.
-G. info: noun/ transitive verb-regular.
-Example: The offenders deserved the harsh discipline they received.
-Personal e.g: Christianity is a religious discipline that started to be fomented two thousand years ago.

-Word: "system". A language is a certain system of habits and skills.
-Meaning: Instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity.
-G. info: noun
-Example: The system consists of a motor and a small computer.
-Personal e.g: Carlos has a problem in his nervous system because of an accident.
-Other: idiom: To get something out of one´s system: doing something to feel better after suffering.