Sunday 7 October 2012

vocabulary profiling

As a teacher, I could use vocabulary profile to identify the frequency of the words. By identifying them in the text, I will make my students work on the words, starting from the most frequent ones. I think that learning the most frequent ones is more important than others because they are the basic parts of the language and pronunciation like 'she/he/I/ am/is/are'... You cannot communicate if you do not know the most frequent ones which are the main parts of language. So, as a teacher, I will overweigh such words. Additionally, it is possible to get students as learners to use a vocabulary profiler. For instance, as a teacher, I will give them a news article and want them to scan it through this tool. So that they can classify the frequency and realize the basic points which are necessarily parts for a language. Furthermore, word cloud is similar to the vocabulary profile in some cases that they are both emphasize the frequency and usage of the words. On the other hand, they have differences. The word cloud is to see the most repeated words to get the main idea what the text is about. In contrast, vocabulary profile is to see the most frequent, basic words of the language in the text. The words are classified into colors to emphasize their frequency. So that the student can realize which words are more beneficial to learn and which ones are the basic ones that will help him/her in the use of language.

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