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Paul Beaufait's List: Vocabulary Development
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Apr 10, 18
"New Vocabulary Application now Available on EnglishCentral"
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Mar 25, 15
Shvidko, Elena. (2015, March 20). Six websites for learning English idioms [weblog post]. Retrieved from http://blog.tesol.org/6-websites-for-learning-english-idioms/
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Feb 27, 13
Dolch, E. W. (1936). A basic sight vocabulary.
<i>The Elementary School Journal, 36</i>(6), 456-460.
Published by: The University of Chicago Press
Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/995914
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Jan 25, 13
Informal comparison of British and U.S. English varieties, vocabulary, and communication styles
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Nov 22, 12
This tool for creating your own cloze tests allows you to focus on every nth word, words you chose, or a variety of other automated options including: articles, auxiliaries, modals, prepositions, quantifiers, link words, and wh- words.
Thanks to EnglishCentral for pointing it out in <a href="http://blog.englishcentral.com/2012/08/20/teacher-tips-making-a-transcript/">Teacher Tips for Making a Transcript</a>. -
Oct 31, 12
In this article, Browne summarized ways of getting to know and knowing words in first or additional languages.
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Aug 29, 12
"The Web's Largest Resource for Definitions & Translations" (deck, ¶1, 2012.08.29) – Thanks to Nik Peachey for Scoop.it-ing this site.
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Nov 22, 11
Search page for Michael Quinion's e-magazine articles about international English
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Sep 20, 11
UsingEnglish provides a "free text analysis tool which gives you statistics about a text including word count; unique words; number of sentences; average words per sentence; lexical density; and the Gunning Fog readability index. More detailed statistics are available to members" (Text Analyser, retrieved 2011.09.20).
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Sep 20, 11
"VocabProfile will tell you how many words the text contains from the following four frequency levels: (1) the list of the most frequent 1000 word families, (2) the second 1000, (3) the Academic Word List, and (4) words that do not appear on the other lists" (Instructions, retrieved 2011.09.20).
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Aug 17, 11
"... Jacki Lyden talks to the senior editor of the American Heritage College Dictionary, now in its fourth edition, about the list of 100 words their editors think all college students (and their parents) should know" (September 17, 2002).
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Jul 25, 11
One of many spelling, vocabulary, and writing resources on the Vocabulary and Spelling City site, this page explains, "Asking a child to write about something that matters to him [sic] right now is a powerful motivator. This is where writing prompts come in. Writing prompts are simply ideas or subjects offered as a foundation for students to build a writing assignment on" (¶3, 2011.07.25). It includes tips for preparing writing prompts as well as examples for elementary, middle school, and high school students. Thanks to Cara Whitehead (Learning with Computers) for pointing out this site.
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Mar 02, 11
This is "a collaboratively edited question and answer site for linguists, etymologists, and serious English language enthusiasts. It's 100% free, no registration required" (Welcome! 2011.02.02).
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Jan 27, 11
Thanks to Yuly for pointing out this powerful toolkit allowing wildcard searches and including a reverse dictionary. OneLook contains "19,044,271 words in 1062 dictionaries indexed" (home page, bottom line, 2011.01.28). It sub-divides long lists of hits into categories: "General, Art, Business, Computing, Medicine, Miscellaneous, Religion, Science, Slang, Sports, Tech, [and] Phrases."
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Sep 30, 10
"... [A] test of vocabulary size ... now being trialled with non-native speakers of English ... is available on this web site" (Current Research Projects, ¶1, 2010.09.30).
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Apr 08, 10
"For the exercises given in this website, the word families for each sublist have been further divided into six groups for ease of study, with three separate gap-fill exercises for each group" (¶2).
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