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LEXIS – Focus on Vocabulary

LEXIS – Focus on Vocabulary. BACKGROUND. THE LEXICAL APPROACH. Michael Lewis (1993). What constitutes a word?. help (noun) help (verb) WORD FAMILIES help, help, helps, helped, helper, helpful, helpless, helplessly, unhelpful. L1 vocabulary growth.

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LEXIS – Focus on Vocabulary

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  1. LEXIS – Focus on Vocabulary BACKGROUND

  2. THE LEXICAL APPROACH Michael Lewis (1993)

  3. What constitutes a word? • help (noun) • help (verb) • WORD FAMILIES help, help, helps, helped, helper, helpful, helpless, helplessly, unhelpful

  4. L1 vocabulary growth • Very young learners learn 50 – 350 words in the holophrastic phase • At age 3 – 500-1000 words in active vocabulary • Age 6 – 2500-5000 lemmas • Learners add 1000-3000 words per year • University entrants in UK - c.9,000 word families • Graduate students in UK – c.13,000 word families

  5. Using this information • identifying readiness for higher study • University entry • Ability to read books in a canon or textbooks Shrek – 6000 words 95% coverage 20th Century English fiction – 8-9000 words Textbook – 10-12000+ words for 95% coverage

  6. CEF and vocabulary levels

  7. What does it mean to “know” a word? FORM MEANING USE

  8. FORM What does the word sound like? How is the word pronounced? What does the word look like? How is the word written and spelled? What parts are recognizable in the word? What word parts are needed to express the meaning?

  9. MEANING What meaning does this word form signal? What word form can be used to express this meaning? What is included in the concept? What items can the concept refer to? What other words does this make us think of? What other words could we use instead of this one?

  10. USE In what patterns does the word occur? In what patterns must we use this word? What words or types of words occur with this one? What words or types of words must we use with this one? Where, when, and how often would we expect to meet this word? Where, when, and how often can we use this word?

  11. CHOOSING VOCABULARY FREQUENCY LISTS CORPORA

  12. GENERAL SERVICE LIST http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~alzsh3/acvocab/wordlists.htm

  13. ACADEMIC WORD LIST http://www.academicvocabularyexercises.com/

  14. BNL http://editthis.info/thebnl/Main_Page#The_lists

  15. CELF “Keyed to CEFR” http://tvo.wikispaces.com/file/view/20386024-Common-English-Lexical-Framework.pdf

  16. VOCABULARY PROFILER http://www.lextutor.ca/vp/eng/

  17. ANOTHER PROFILER http://ec.hku.hk/vocabulary/profile.htm

  18. CORPUS LINGUISTICS(“corpora” is the plural of “corpus”) http://www.collins.co.uk/Corpus/CorpusSearch.aspx http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/ http://www.americancorpus.org/

  19. VERY USER FRIENDLY http://193.133.140.102/JustTheWord/

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