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Search page for Michael Quinion's e-magazine articles about international English

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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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"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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"... 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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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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For learners of English, sports posts in various categories: adjectives, grammatical expression[s], grammatical word[s], idioms, phrasal verbs, and the difference[s] between words (Categories, 2011.02.02)

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"... [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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"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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"Named 'Outstanding Resource' by WebEnglishTeacher.com" (sidebar)

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a same/opposite vocabulary quiz item and feedback generator - Try it out!

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Video feedback (2:53) on a student's two-paragraph self-intro. See the LTD Project Blog for reflections:
http://ltdproject.edublogs.org/2007/11/30/video-feedback-on-a-students-essay-reflection/

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