The EVP Taking the guesswork out of vocabulary

The EVP: Taking the guesswork out of vocabulary Before we start… 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Please go to http: //englishprofile. org/wordlists Click on Complete free subscription form Check your email for login details Go to http: //vocabulary. englishprofile. org/ and enter the login details © Cambridge University Press

The EVP: Taking the guesswork out of vocabulary Rebecca Hill ETAS PD Day 23 rd September 2017

Lead-in Questions • How do you like to introduce new vocabulary to your students? • Do you use topic wordlists? How? Where do you find them? • What strategies do you use to help your learners with unfamiliar vocab in reading texts? © Cambridge University Press

What is the EVP? • Online database of words and phrases in English • NOT a syllabus of what learners should know but instead a reflection of what they do know • Mapped to CEFR levels © Cambridge University Press

What is the EVP? • Based on Cambridge Learner Corpus (CLC) and Cambridge English Corpus (CEC) • CLC Over 250, 000 coded ELT exam papers from learners around the world • CEC Multi-billion word collection of spoken and written English • Collaboration between: © Cambridge University Press

How does the EVP work? Basic search features: • Level information – based on meaning • British or American English • Examples are from REAL student writing © Cambridge University Press

How does the EVP work? Advanced search features: • Generating topic wordlists at the right level • Finding examples of particular forms e. g. uncountable nouns © Cambridge University Press

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Go to http: //englishprofile. org/wordlists Click on Complete free subscription form Check your email for login details Go to http: //vocabulary. englishprofile. org/ and enter the login details Group Activity 1 Create your own wordlist: • Use the Advanced Search • Choose level & topic/grammar/prefix etc. • Generate word list • Consider how/when you could use this list in your lesson planning or with your students • Discuss with a partner / in small groups © Cambridge University Press

Text inspector • Analyses all words in a text • Others are out there… but they don't provide the CEFR levels! © Cambridge University Press

Group Activity 2 Analyse an article with Text Inspector Text A: https: //tinyurl. com/yaf 6 s 767 Text B: https: //tinyurl. com/yamljadg • Copy and paste into the text inspector window: http: //www. englishprofile. org/wordlists/text-inspector • Use the results to decide: - what level class you would use this text with - which words you would highlight or pre-teach • Discuss your decisions with a partner / in groups © Cambridge University Press

How do we use the EVP at CUP? • Checking reading/listening texts • Producing lists of keywords • Checking hunches © Cambridge University Press

A recent example… © Cambridge University Press

Thanks for listening! Any questions? Rebecca Hill Senior Editor rhill@cambridge. org