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Putting the New GSL to work in the classroom

By savageward on September 2, 2014 • ( 2 Comments )

The General Service List has been around since 1953, when researcher Michael West used a 2.5 million corpus to identify the 2000 most important, high-frequency word families English learners needed to know. The GSL has been an indispensable tool for teachers in helping them know which words deserve […]

The Vocabulary-Grammar Continuum: A third approach to activity design

By savageward on August 30, 2014 • ( Leave a comment )

We have recently published an article for the TESOL AEIS newsletter on the “vocabulary-grammar continuum,” presenting how vocabulary, word forms, and grammar may be taught together rather than separately. We also look at how teachers might handle high-frequency word lists by categorizing words into content, grammar, and “shadow” words. The article […]