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From here you can access sets of frequency lists with every word linked to a set of learning resources including text-to-speech (with Windows), concordance, dictionary, and a range of fixed and user built quizzes.

Learning principle: Learners like word lists, so let's give them good ones. Word lists, unlike natural texts, can provide broad coverage of a frequency zone in a short time. And if properly resourced and used, lists can be a stimulus to deep learning as well (a point elaborated in Breadth and depth of vocab learning (1997) and Applying constructivism: A test for the learner as linguist (1999)).

  1. English Classic (1k+2k+AWL)
    (2 April 09): Build-a-Dictionary option from PET*2000 is revived. Access from larger context window (at bottom); full-sentence examples can be glossed and saved in Excel - paste-friendly format.

    1k and 2k lists as of Sept 08 are linked to corpora of graded reader collections. This means words are met in comprehensible contexts.

        1.a English BNC (1k - 20k) Jan 2011

    New in both English List_Learns: choice of nine translation dictionaries.                      

  2. French
    Only two 1000 lists are currently available, but more could be provided on user request. For a discussion of French lists, see Is there an AWL in French? (2002)


        Put your own lists into List_Learn at Hypertext !
All code by T. Cobb, UQAM. Concept from doctoral thesis. Lists by West/Baumann, Culligan (classic) and Nation (BNC). To come: Auto-link to Group Lex