What constitutes a ‘word’?
The Global Scale of English (GSE) Vocabulary is a graded lexical inventory of general English that learners should be able to understand at different levels of proficiency. The entries in the GSE Vocabulary are word meanings, not lemmas (e.g. for the base word “foot”, the singular form “foot” and its inflected plural form “feet” are two separate entries) or word families. There are more than 37,000 word meanings, corresponding to about 20,000 lemmas, 80,000 collocations and 7,000 phrases.
A four-step process was used to create the GSE Vocabulary inventory:
1. Three corpora were analysed to identify the most frequency words used by young L1 learners speakers.
2. The words were annotated according to the topic and subtopic they related to.
3. The words were rated by teachers for communicative usefulness.
4. The word meanings were aligned with the GSE and CEFR.
Teachers were asked to rate words by meaning using this scale:
1. Essential
2. Important
3. Useful
4. Nice to have
5. Extra
Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
