text still growing

The nanotechnology text is still growing.
One of the choices for out of the range words would be to link them to other Simple English wikipedia pages, another would be the Simple English Wiktionary. This already has definitions for over 6,000 words - including atom but not molecule.

First text

Now working on the first text for students of Simple English - nanotech. Start with the Wikipedia entry and then filter it through Laurence Anthony's word profiler and the appropriate wordlists.
I suppose the finished result could be posted to the simple english version of wikipedia.

notes about Range

again I started getting the dreaded "range check error" message. This time caused by not saving the baseword list with unicode (full) filter on plain text. Funny I thought it needed something simpler.

Making the basewrd list for simple english I'm adding a lot of verbs that belong to abtract nouns - things like digestion, discussion etc. seem to want to have the verbs in there with them.

some links to related projects

blog of a person doing research and using tools like wordsmith and Range.
and
a course that seems to be aimed at lexical approach teachers Among other things at least. What caught my eye was this assignment using Range - which analyses TV shows and asks the question is this a thing to recommend to students?

The japanese equivalent

Using the same idea An approach to Japanese could be developed based on the list of 1,945 commonly used Kanji. Published in 1981 by the Japanese government.

one third

of the approximately 300 words in the list my ginea-pig student classified about 100 as unknown. This suggests to me that her level of vocabulary knowledge is sort of appropriate for following the Simple English course. Looking at materials composed of the KET / A2 wordlist plus Simple Enlgish.

19 categories for lesson one

I decided that for a first lesson 19 categories would suffice, including the I DON'T KNOW THIS WORD category.

Work starts with the assumption that the student has studied basic English up to the level of KET. How they respond to a non communicative beginning will depend on their motivation and learning style. Probably for a lot of people it would be more fun to begin with a text...(Coming soon)

Things to do with lists:

This page divides the list into 38 categories. Note that there are opposites - which provides a ready made kind of exercise. Sorting the whole list would be a big and rather boring revision task.

The list in its original form contains 100 "qualities" and 50 of these have a corresponding opposite.