This link has been bookmarked by 13 people . It was first bookmarked on 15 Jul 2008, by Tod Baker.
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KM Andersonargues this is better than Wordle.
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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.) -
One helpful approach is to focus on the specialized academic language
specific to any discipline. - 2 more annotations...
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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 -
Bill HarshbargerInteresting article about on-line tools for checking vocabulary levels of readings. Could be useful for our ELP Reader.
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Tod Bakervocabulary development
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