Postby Cavesa » Wed Jun 22, 2016 3:30 pm
I like the free form, even though I think we could do with a few bits of standartization.
One idea that came to my mind was visual distinction of three profile fields: native language(s), now actively studied, maintained. And a search function allowing me to easily look up logs by people actively studying a language, or natives, or people maintaining the language, that would be quite helpful
As far as the levels go, I don't think CEFR (or any derived bars from it or such things) should be the norm for the profiles. Not only there are many learners with unbalanced active/passive or written/oral skills. Vast majority of people estimates their level most times. Therefore we could either implement that awesome "can do" statement list (in a similar form to the skill list on old htlal) and get some kind of central level assessment, or let people describe their levels anyhow they want and have just as precise or imprecise information. And don't forget there are other scales as well and I am not convinced we should convert them all artificially to cefr (for example, I read some pretty passionate discussions about the real level of the Mandarin exams HSK not coresponding to the officially claimed CEFR equivalents. Or we all know many of the state organized exams (like Maturita here in the Czech Rep.) oficially follow the cefr but may or may not correspond well. Really, do we want to deal with things like that centrally on this forum?). I think letting people use words like "intermediate" "passive" "fluent" doesn't do that much harm in the end.
We should, however, have clear distinction between level estimates and certificates, that is something that worked well on the old htlal, it would be great to have a tool like that in our profiles as well.
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