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...amiliar with general-service English vocabularys(Gardner & Davis, 2014).sAVL might serve as a replacement for the most commonly used list of academicsvocabulary to date, the Academic Word List (AWL) (=-=Coxhead, 2000-=-). The main differencessbetween AVL and AWL are that the former is based on a much larger and more recent corpuss(Gardner & Davis, 2014). AVL also groups words by lemma rather than word families, whic...

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...n pressing thesSelect button.sAcademic vocabulary.sThe Select button prompts the program to split the article into sentences and part-ofspeech tag the text using the Stanford Tagger supplied by NLTK (=-=Bird et al., 2009-=-). The wordssare then lemmatized with the use of the NLTK’s WordNet lemmatizer and crosschecked againststhe Academic Vocabulary List (Davies & Gardner, 2014). Words from the article that are listedsam...

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...gnize affixes in newly encountered wordssand make connections with words they already know might give them an advantage insunderstanding and even being able to remember new vocabulary better (Bauer & =-=Nation, 1993-=-;sBirch, 2007; Nation, 2001; Schmitt, 2000; Schmitt & Boyd Zimmerman, 2002).sWhen teaching vocabulary in an ELL classroom, language instructors guide their studentssin planned word practice activities...

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...at studentssstay on task and that the time and effort dedicated to learning with is well spent.sSchmitt suggested that learners need to notice vocabulary and grammar in order to learnsit (as cited in =-=Chapelle & Jamieson, 2008-=-). Learners might become aware of a new word whensthey realize that they do not understand it, when it is highlighted in the text, or when they aresprovided with multiple opportunities to interact wit...

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...rocess” (Ma & Kelly, 2006,sp. 19). They also seem to improve comprehension of a written text (Knight, 1994). Access to anselectronic dictionary appears to help accidental vocabulary learning as well (=-=Li, 2009-=-), and ashyperlinked text may give students the advantage of seeing the word in context (Chapelle &sJamieson, 2008). In addition, when words in a text are made visible through highlighteds20shyperlink...

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...t compare more traditional strategiessof teaching and learning vocabulary with computer-based methods suggest there is no significantsdifference between the two methods as far as vocabulary learning (=-=Oberg, 2011-=-) ands17scomprehension (Aust, Kelley, & Roby, 1993) are concerned. However, when the general attitudesof learners towards CALL and qualitative outcomes were taken into account, researchers havesfound ...

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...mple, both as a noun and as a verb, the inflectedsforms for both of these parts of speech are displayed.sThe inflected forms are extracted from the Automatically Generated Inflection Databases(AGID) (=-=Atkinson, 2003-=-), which was modified to suit the needs of this program. One of thesmodifications to the database was to remove all inflected forms about which the author of AGIDsvoiced any type of concern. These inc...

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...nefit from studying the most general andshigh frequency vocabulary (Nation & Waring, 1997). This vocabulary may be retrieved, forsexample, from the recently published New General Service List (NGSL) (=-=Browne, 2013-=-). NGSLsincludes about 2,400 high-frequency word families and is based on a 273 million-wordssubsection of the 1.6 billion-word Cambridge English Corpus (CEC)sand, as suggested by itssauthors, provide...

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... date back to the 1960s;showever, at that time these applications were not technologically advanced and there was limitedsaccess to them as they were costly to use and required specialized equipment (=-=Chapelle, 2001-=-).sEmerging technologies and increased access to computers as well as advances in appliedslinguistics research have allowed for more sophisticated Computer-Assisted Language Learningsto be developed i...

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...to account as well as their needs and interestss(Loucky, 2010). Researchers have also emphasized that language learning theories should besused as a framework for a CALL program design (Loucky, 2010; =-=Ma & Kelly, 2006-=-).sAnother consideration to keep in mind when creating a computer-based language tool isswhether to focus on introducing vocabulary to the users in isolation or in context and how muchsfreedom the use...

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...untered wordssand make connections with words they already know might give them an advantage insunderstanding and even being able to remember new vocabulary better (Bauer & Nation, 1993;sBirch, 2007; =-=Nation, 2001-=-; Schmitt, 2000; Schmitt & Boyd Zimmerman, 2002).sWhen teaching vocabulary in an ELL classroom, language instructors guide their studentssin planned word practice activities that promote vocabulary de...