ECOSTAR’s vocabulary resources enable teachers to: run digital texts through ROADS Text Profiler to identify the percentage of level-appropriate vocabulary in a specific text. assign vocabulary exercises between classes for pre-reading preparation and post-reading consolidation. provide students with links to vocabulary exercises for independent study to ‘close gaps’.
How can ECOSTAR Resource Bank’s vocabulary resources help students?
Levelling the playing field ECOSTAR’s independentstudy vocabulary resources enable students to: check which words most learners already have acquired at the A2 Elementary (Besisi), B1 Intermediate (Mitkadmim Aleph) and B2 Upper Intermediate (Mitkadmim Bet) levels. check their own vocabulary levels to identify possible gaps. Results of the ECOSTAR survey show that some students only start […]
Where can I find ECOSTAR’s curated version of CEFR wordlists?
The ECOSTAR team has curated CEFR wordlists for college and university EFL teachers who want to focus mainly on vocabulary in the academic and occupational domains. These curated wordlists are designed to assist teachers and students in prioritizing learning of CEFR words and expressions. These curated wordlists are available on the Roads to Academic Reading […]
How are the CEFR wordlists different from wordlists we already know, such as Coxhead’s Academic Word List?
CEFR wordlists AWL wordlists Number of words Over 7,000 words and phrases 570 headwords (just over 3000 words including derivatives) grouped into 10 sub-lists, according to frequency Expressions in addition to single words Yes Single words only Database Data used to develop CEFR wordlists Based on computerized analyses of academic articles across 4 different disciplines […]
Why do the CEFR vocabulary lists seem like such a “mixed bag”?
CEFR wordlists include a very wide range of words. This is partly because the CEFR focuses on learning and teaching language activities contextualized within four different ‘domains’: Domain What does this cover? Public Everything connected to ordinary social interaction (business, administration, public services, cultural and leisure activities, the media, etc.) Personal Complements the public […]
What! Are my students expected to learn all those words??!!
The authors of the CEFR emphasize that: “We have NOT set out to tell practitioners what to do or how to do it. We are raising questions not answering them. It is not the function of the CEF to lay down the objectives that users should pursue or the methods they should employ” (Council of […]
Which words do learners typically know at different CEFR levels?
To see which words learners typically know at the different CEFR levels, go to: http://www.englishprofile.org/wordlists . This site lets you search words by levels and additional filters. The following shows the results of a search for adjectives at the B1 level only, in British English:
Who developed the CEFR wordlists?
CEFR wordlists were compiled by the following bodies: CEFR wordlists on based on data from the following sources: Cambridge Learner Corpus (CLC). This is a collection of several hundred thousand examination scripts written by learners from 203 different countries. Level-specific examination vocabulary lists and classroom materials. Cambridge English Corpus, a multi-billion word corpus of spoken and written […]
How many words are on the CEFR wordlists?
The short answer is, According to Annette Capel, (English Profile Journal, 2012) there are around 4,700 headwords included up to B2 level, and 6,970 headwords from A1 to C2. CEFR wordlists, as in the example for “know” below, show the same word across many levels, with different meanings at each level: (http://www.englishprofile.org/images/pdf/eng_pro_information_booklet.pdf. ) This […]
