Thursday, October 4, 2012

vocabulary profiling

I can apply the vocabulary profiler to our text to make students understand what are the functional words, what are the content words, what are the frequent and less frequent words.  In this way students will be able to explore the words in colour.  It is possible to get students to use vocabulary profiler in their courses.  This will help the students learn the word types.  We can give them firstly a short text to make them understand basic things.  We can make the students to guess the words without knowing what about the colour is.  Both word cloud and vocabulary profile are the basic forms of finding frequent words.  In wordle and lextutor we have more information about words.  For example, in wordle we can see where the most frequent words were used, we can see the complete sentence of the word like we saw in the example of materials.  In lextutor also we see detailed information about words.  We can use word cloud to see most frequent and less frequent words.  However, we can use vocabulary profiler to explore the words in colour, what are the types of words like they are function words or content word.  So vocabulary profiler more detailed than word cloud.

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