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CEFR-J Reference Level Descriptions (RLDs) †
What is RLD? †
Major RLD projects for English †
British Council/EAQUALS Core Inventory for General English †
English Profile: †
Global Scale of English by Pearson †
Before CEFR †
- Threshold Level Series ("T-series")
- You can access the original T-series books from here
CEFR-J Wordlist †
About: †
- CEFR-J Wordlist Version 1.6
- A list of 7,801 items classified by the CEFR (A1 to B2) levels.
- Each item has the following information:
- headword (lemma form)
- part of speech
- CEFR level
- thematic categories defined by the British Council/EAQUALS Core Inventory for General English and Threshold Levels 1990 (Council of Europe)
Download †
How to cite: †
- Tono, Y. (2017). The CEFR-J and its Impact on English Language Teaching in Japan. JACET International Convention Selected Papers, Volume 4, pp. 31-52. JACET.
CEFR-J Collocation Dataset †
About †
- First release (September, 2022)
- Collocation list based on the CEFR-J Wordlist Ver. 1.6
- Syntactic frame-based collocation pairs extracted from BNC (dependency-parsed by stanza)
Dataset information: †
- Each collocation pair has the following information:
- w1: collocate
- w2: node
- w1_CEFR: CEFR level of w1
- w2_CEFR: CEFR level of w2
- relation: dependency relation
- cooccurrence: collocation frequency
- freq_w1: independent frequency of w1in the entire BNC
- freq_w2: independent frequency of w2 in the entire BNC
- w1_in_rel: frequency of w1 in the given dependency relation
- w2_in_rel: frequency of w2 in the given dependency relation
- DP: dispersion measure DP (Gries)
- expected_freq: expected frequencies
- Association measures for this given collocation pair:
- MI/ MI2/ MI3/ t_score/ z_score/ logDice/ log_likelihood/ chi_squared
Download †
- ADJ+NOUN (amod): 135,939 pairs [ download ]
- VERB+NOUN (obj): 114,582 pairs [ download ]
- NOUN+NOUN (nounmod): 72,340 pairs [ download ]
- ADVERB+VERB (advmod verb): 43,992 pairs [ download ]
- ADVERB+ADJ (advmod adj): 16,180 pairs [ download ]
Acknowledgement †
- This dataset was created by Kohei Fukuda, a postgraduate student in my lab.
How to cite: †
- Fukuda, K. & Tono, Y. (2022). The CEFR-J Collocation Dataset Version 1.0. Tono Lab, TUFS. (this URL)
CEFR-J Grammar Profile †
About †
- An inventory of grammar items classified by CEFR levels
- Profiling was based on INPUT (ELT Course Book Corpus) as well as OUTPUT (Spoken and Written Learner Corpus)
A list of grammar items and their REGEX queries †
- The following Excel file describes 263 grammar items investigated and their REGEX query
Grammar Profile for Teachers and Learners †
- A user-friendly version of the Grammar Profile
- Visual display showing CEFR levels where particular grammar items are introduced based on the distributions of grammar items across position-based CEFR course books.
Original dataset †
- Frequencies of 263 grammar items are obtained from the following corpora. Corpora themselves cannot be redistributed due to copyright restrictions, but the frequency data from each text will be made publicly available.
- CEFR-based ELT Course Books: Frequency of 263 grammar items in CEFR-classified course books
- CEFR-based ELT Course Books (Position-based): Frequency of 263 grammar items in the course books divided by two or three parts in order to examine the detailed occurrences in CEFR sub-levels.
- CEFR-based ELT Course Books (Skill-based): Frequency of 263 grammar items in the course books divided by sections focusing on 4 skills (listening/reading/speaking/writing).
- Written Learner Corpus: Frequency of 263 grammar items in the JEFLL Corpus, a corpus of 10,000 Japanese EFL learners' 20-minute in-class free compositions. Frequencies were obtained in both the original student writings and the versions corrected by native speakers.
- Spoken Learner Corpus: Frequency of 263 grammar items in NICT JLE Corpus, a corpus of oral interviews by Japanese EFL learners (1,281 samples)
How to cite: †
- Ishii, Y. & Tono, Y. (2018). Investigating Japanese EFL learners' overuse/underuse of English grammar categories and their relevance to CEFR levels. Proceedings of the 4th Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference, (Edited by Y. Tono and H. Isahara), pp. 160-165.
CEFR-J Text Profile †
About: †
- Text Profile is a list of textual characteristics and their values obtained from the analysis of CEFR-classified texts
- The CEFR-J Text Profile was mainly constructed by our project member, Dr Satoru Uchida (Kyushu University), the team of Yuki Arase Lab at Osaka University and Sachio Hirokawa Lab at Kyushu University.
How to cite: †
- Uchida, Satoru and Masashi Negishi (2018) Assigning CEFR-J levels to English texts based on textual features. In Y. Tono and H. Isahara (eds.) Proceedings of the 4th Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference (APCLC 2018), pp. 463-467. PDF
- Uchida, S. (2015). A CEFR-based Textbook Corpus: An attempt to reveal linguistic features of CEFR levels (original in Japanese). English Corpus Studies, 22, 87-99.
CEFR-J Error Profile †
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