This link has been bookmarked by 15 people . It was first bookmarked on 15 Jul 2008, by Tod Baker.
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08 Jun 09
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Logically, you’d think learning the 2,001st-3,000th most frequent words would be the sensible thing to do after learning the first 2k, but that’s not true. You only gain a percentage point or two. (Think of the Long Tail applied to English vocabulary: we all use the top 2k, but after that, the hundreds of thousands of other words in the language flatten out.)
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One helpful approach is to focus on the specialized academic language specific to any discipline.
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Students can use this tool to analyze (learn about) their own lexical sophistication. Have them drop their latest essay or story into the profiler, and let them see how many of their word choices are sophisticated enough to fall outside of the top 2000 words. The colors won’t lie.
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Fancy SAT words are well-and-all, but many students don’t know many words in the 2k + AWL, and they’re more important. Teachers can help them fill the gaps in their knowledge of these words with the VP. “Utlilize” is less important (and to my demotic tastes, less elegant) than “use.” English teachers take note.
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06 Apr 09
1)Dry+necessary (interesting,really) background to computer-assisted“corpus linguistics”;2)Application of Vocab Profiler to a little“Scribe 2.0"medieval satire I had fun writing way back when;3)Tutorial on some uses of Vocab Profiler to aid in scaffolding
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17 Dec 08
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01 Sep 08
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05 Aug 08
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19 Jul 08
Gregory LouieWordle with Teeth: U of Quebec’s Vocab Profiler
Contents:
1) Dry but necessary (and interesting, really) background to computer-assisted “corpus linguistics”;
2) Application of Vocab Profiler to a little “Scribe 2.0″ medieval satire I had fun writing way back when;
3) Tutorial on some uses of Vocab Profiler to aid in scaffolding classroom reading comprehension;
4) Caveats and Take-Aways -
16 Jul 08
Bill HarshbargerInteresting article about on-line tools for checking vocabulary levels of readings. Could be useful for our ELP Reader.
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15 Jul 08
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Corrie Bergerona visual lexigraphic analysis tool
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