In the last blog post, I explained how you could use dictionaries and text checkers to identify useful vocabulary to learn and remember. In that post, I focused on the 3,000 most frequent words in English. However, to get to higher levels of English, achieve a high score on the IELTS and to be ableContinue reading “Useful Websites for Vocabulary Learning – Medium Frequency ‘General’ Vocabulary”
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Useful Websites for Vocabulary Learning – Frequent ‘General’ Vocabulary
In the previous post, I mentioned how research into academic texts show that the majority of words in a text are words that are very common in ‘general’ English. This means that they are just as common in everyday conversation as they are in academic English, and they are not too specific to a particularContinue reading “Useful Websites for Vocabulary Learning – Frequent ‘General’ Vocabulary”
Useful Websites for Vocabulary Learning – Academic Vocabulary
In previous posts, I have explained the importance of developing implicit language knowledge in order to become fluent in English at a high level. We can do this mostly by getting the right kind of input (see here, here and here). By doing lots of reading and listening we are learning vocabulary incidentally (implicitly). InContinue reading “Useful Websites for Vocabulary Learning – Academic Vocabulary”
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