ELT Lexical Syllabus

ELT Lexical Syllabus - the teachers' guide

Work in progress, expect frequent changes. Help and feedback is welcome. See discussion page.

ELT Lexical Syllabus
Teacher's Guide	Frequency Lists |  New Lists |
Basic User	add vocabulary lessons as sections of the topic "Basic User"  |
Simple English	1  |
Independent User	add vocabulary lessons as sections of the topic "Independent User"  |
Academic Wordlist	add vocabulary lessons as sections of the topic "Academic Wordlist"  |
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The idea of this resource is to make a teachers' guide for vocabulary learning. This main page explains the approach from the point of view of teachers and material writers. It has sub-pages which serve as an organising principle for lesson materials at the four levels, and students of English as a foreign or second language can go directly to these.

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Objectives

teachers who have read this guide will have word lists relating to different levels, understand how to create materials appropriate for these levels, understand the scheme for organising materials by level in this part of wikieducator

Do you know that if you take a piece of English text, the word "the" will be the one that repeats most often? In fact on average it will appear about once in every 16 words anybody writes or speaks.

Preknowledge

What do you know about data-driven learning as an idea for syllabus design?

If you would like to know more about this idea a good explanation is given here:

http://www.lextutor.ca/research/
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