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This is the first of two posts describing the initial and continuing development of an academic vocabulary syllabus. This post has been some five or six years in the making, give or take a few mont...
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A very detailed and copiously illustrated post by Adam Simpson describing the development of a vocabulary programme for EFL learners. References to research in vocabulary (Nation) and corpus tools. Delete the scoop?
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Slides and handout from at TESOL 2013 presentation discussing an action research project looking at vocabulary learning techniques with EAP students.
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Other posts on vocabulary from learner, teacher and researcher perspectives: http://www.scoop.it/t/telt?q=vocabulary Delete the scoop?
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Laura Korhonen, Ilona Laakkonen, Britta Schneider, Richard Van Camp
Learn to use a corpus interface from the Brigham Young University. You can use either the British National Corpus (BNC) or the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA).
This section will familiarise you with a language corpus that supports refined search options and provides data that is specific and more reliable.
You can return to this material for tips and advice, when willing to use the corpus as a tool for revising your own piece of text or for exploring the English language.
1. Corpus basics
2. Simple searches
3. Words that fit together: collocations
4. Building your vocabulary: word families
5. The appropriate language: mind the register
Time estimate: 3 hours Self-access log
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I guess this has been out there since 2007; I found it on ELT blog maintained by Mura Nava, who has pedagogical applications for corpora here http://eflnotes.wordpress.com/tag/cupofcoca/ Delete the scoop?
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Although corpora are now widely used in putting together ELT Dictionaries, and increasingly used in writing ELT materials, it is still rare, I think, for corpora, and especially for concordances to... 
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March 6, 5:38 PM
Nice post on using corpora for ELT without being a corpus linguist or a tech whiz. 
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April 13, 12:09 AM
A nice introduction to corpora and concordance tools and how they are useful in teaching languages and, by extension, translation. Delete the scoop?
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Look up multiple words quickly. Simply copy and paste a list with any delimeter. Definitions/synonyms are immediately available for viewing, emailing, or downloading. 
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February 18, 10:28 PM
I tried a quick random list of words and the definitions seemed pretty good but not for lower level learners. I couldn't find any information about which dictionary they have used.
It's quick, though, so could be useful in class for instant results and to use for word games. Delete the scoop?
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To “get by” in a language it takes a vocabulary of about 120 basic words. Anne Merritt explains how to learn them.
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See also a research-based look at vocabulary acquisition from Paul Nation http://www.scoop.it/t/telt/p/3994725134/research-into-practice-vocabulary-nation-2011 
Carmenne K. Thapliyal's curator insight,
April 14, 6:23 AM
These could be good techniques for memorising lexis.... but honestly, how important is it to 'memorise' vocab ... shouldn't the stress on the 'application' of already acquired vocab???? Delete the scoop?
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Vocabulary Exercises for the AWL
This site now contains 285 gap-fill exercises to review and recycle the general word families contained within the AWL. These exercises can be found on each Sublist page. Gap-fill exercises are an excellent way to recycle vocabulary through different contexts and can be used to broaden the student's understanding of the range of meaning of vocabulary. The online format of the exercises allows students to get immediate feedback on their answers. Students can work throughfive different exercises for each word family in the AWL. Many of these exercises include different derivations (parts of speech) for the given word. Students are encouraged to complete the exercises for a given level before proceeding to the next level.
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Gerry Luton at the University of Victoria in Canada has a special interest in vocabulary acquisition. 
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February 16, 2:42 PM
It's good to keep on learning, and this is a great place to study vocabulary:-) 
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February 17, 3:27 AM
Anglais : exercices pour revoir et apprendre du vocabulaire 
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February 17, 4:21 AM
IT is a really good site to learn vocabulary. Different levels!
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This article is a personal view of the application of research on vocabulary to teaching and how there are three different types or categories of relationship between that research and the teaching to which it is applied: first, where the research is not applied or not applied well, second, where it is reasonably well applied, and third, where it is over-applied. For each of these three categories, I look at what I consider to be the most important areas of research and suggest why they fit into that category. The topics covered include planning vocabulary courses, distinguishing high frequency and low frequency words, extensive reading, the deliberate learning of vocabulary, academic vocabulary and vocabulary teaching.
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Here are my bullet points from reading this article which summarises recent research into L2 vocabulary acquisition for language teachers.
- there two types of vocabulary: high frequency and low frequency (Zipf's law - there is no middle ground). ESL learners need to meet high frequency words often, and learn strategies to tackle low frequency words
- extensive (rather than intensive) reading with graded readers works for high frequency words; learners can be encouraged in this if initial class time is devoted to a "proper extensive reading program" (p. 532)
- bilingual word cards - "deliberate decontextualised rote learning of vocabulary" - is effective for long-term learning and acquisition of implicit knowledge (p. 533) though should be viewed as a "support" rather than an "alternative to communicative learning"
- although deliberate learning is effective, deliberate teaching does not mean deliberate learning - studies often show less than half of taught words were learned via vocabulary exercises
Nation recommends paying attention to vocabulary learning via extensive graded reading and independent learning with bilingual word cards, rather than devoting class time to intensive reading and vocabulary exercises.
He recommends this research paper: Elgort, I. (2011). Deliberate learning and vocabulary acquisition in a second language. Language Learning, 61.2, 367–413.
and this website: The Compleat Lexical Tutor http://www.lextutor.ca/ Delete the scoop?
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Guest Post by Aaron Knight: Aaron Knight is the creator of Year of English, a free daily email course for English learners who want to become fluent in
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Advice for learners.
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January 5, 11:48 PM
Knight says: "It takes hundreds of hours to become fluent in a foreign language" and concludes that an "addiction" to target language activities is a viable alternative to living in the target culture. He has some good language learning strategies in this short post. Delete the scoop?
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[This is the draft of a paper I wrote for a presentation at an Interpretation/Translation Conference in fall 2010. This may or may not have been based on an MA assignment.] Abstract Interpretation...
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Michael Griffin shows how to use corpus tools to articulate the differences in meaning and usage between the words 'problem' and 'trouble' for EFL/ESL learners.
He takes Firth as his starting point (see here for my take on this http://bit.ly/WeTGiB)
and refers to these sites http://www.sketchengine.co.uk/ske.cgi?page=acd http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/
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Listen while you read: Part 1: (to the end of ‘Print your flashcards’) Part 2: (practise your spellings to play a typing game) Part 3: (How to join quizlet to end) What is Quizlet exact...
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ESL teacher Sandy Millin explains how to use Quizlet for studying English vocabulary. This page has embedded audio with oral explanations of how Quizlet works, and the guide includes different parts on different ways to use the site.
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December 12, 2012 8:32 AM
ESL teacher Sandy Millin's guide to the resource for English learners. Delete the scoop?
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Shona Whyte: Paul Nation has a huge number of publications on vocabulary, particularly in relation to second language learning and teaching. Many of the older articles are available for free download. Delete the scoop?
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Shona Whyte: ESL instructor and graduate student in TESOL as Northern Arizona University Randy Rebman describes using a concordancer with university ESL learners. Delete the scoop?
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Quick and dirty way into a text for EFL reading. Paste in your text and see a word cloud, images, and a visual thesaurus.
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Lots of applications, from quick real-time introductory activity, to unplanned online check-up, to more structured learner assignments for presentations and so on. Delete the scoop?
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Corpora interfaces VIEW: Variation in English Words and Phrases (online) http://view.byu.edu/MICASE: The Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (online) http://micase.umdl.umich.edu/m/micase/ ;
Using Google as a corpus http://www.hltmag.co.uk/may00/idea.htmhttp://www-writing.berkeley.edu/tesl-ej/ej26/int.html
Corpus exercises
Learner errors http://elex.amu.edu.pl/~przemka/concord2adv/errors.htmhttp://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/my-english.html Word families http://www.uefap.com/vocab/build/building.htm Phrasal verbs
http://eslcafe.com/pvhttp://englishpage.com/prepositions/phrasaldictionary.html
Presentation skills http://www.see.ed.ac.uk/~gerard/Management/art1.html
Transitional devices http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/transitions.htm
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An overview of what corpus studies can tell us about how words are used, and then discussion of what can and should be taught regarding vocabulary. Delete the scoop?
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Thanks to Larry Ferlazzo for sharing this resource! ImageQuiz is a fantastic new website that lets users create image-based quizzes with ease. Just upload your image, choose a title, and begin tagg... Via Todoele 
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May 8, 3:11 AM
even if the concept is not new, it is great to see how effectively it can be used today
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May 9, 8:34 PM
Great language teaching resource, thank you for sharing. 
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May 14, 4:16 PM
Looks like fun and a great way to pre and post assess. Could also be a good tuning in activity... Delete the scoop?
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Vocabulary games testing - intuitions about word frequency - grammatical labels for irregular verbs - phrasal verb meanings - phrasal verb particles
All text without audio and without contextualisation except for the fourth game suitable for intermediate learners and above. Multiple choice format, immediate feedback, timed countdown, final score and social media share buttons. Delete the scoop?
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This video introduces some of the basics of the COCA interface including displays, wildcards and lemmatization. The video also discusses some introductory is... Via Pascual Pérez-Paredes
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Useful indeed. Language teachers typically use this kind of corpus to test their intuitions about usage, or in data-driven teaching send their learners to check their own vocabulary choices. But it's not particularly easy to get started with this database, so this video is a good place to start. Delete the scoop?
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A complete website for learning and learning about English words. You can test your vocabulary level, then work on the words at the level where you are weak.
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As recommended by vocabulary researcher Paul Nation. Delete the scoop?
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Independent vocabulary learning practice.
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A recommendation for the free vocabulary learning system Duolingo, which also has a free iOS app, as a "supplement" to classroom activities. Delete the scoop?
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Online resources for helping learners use corpora for vocabulary acquisition. Delete the scoop?
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EFL teacher Dale Coulter shares strategies for learning and teaching vocabulary.
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In addition to his ELT blog, check out Dale Coulter's views on Dogme for newly qualified teachers
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December 14, 2012 2:42 AM
A wide variety of techniques and ideas for working on vocabulary with EFL learners. Delete the scoop?
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This is a very interesting tool for analysing text and word frequency in text. It enables you to create your own mini corpus and see how words are used in context. Via Nik Peachey, Shona Whyte 
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December 15, 2012 7:54 PM
This tool allows you to easily export the concordance lines into a text file. Provided the text was either online or in a text file, it also makes identifying vocabulary words in texts easier. As a corpus tool on the web, I find the option of being able to upload multiple texts into the corpus one of the benefits of the site. But this tool is still in Beta mode, so there may still be some kinks with it that need worked out. Delete the scoop?
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Just The Word collocations - helps you in writing English. Type a word and get collocations and associated expressions. Via marinella47, Ricard Garcia, Peichin Lu, Shona Whyte Delete the scoop?
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