Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Link to NY Times Article on Kids and Pressure

Why Can Some Kids Handle Pressure While Others Fall Apart?


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/10/magazine/why-can-some-kids-handle-pressure-while-others-fall-apart.html?_r=0&pagewanted=print

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Useful Vocabulary Links



ONLINE VOCABULARY STUDY

WORDCOUNT™ (Cool graphic representation of 86,800 words by frequency rank)

High frequency word lists with definitions & corpus-based collocations

English vocabulary exercises.com

Center for Independent Language Learning

Flashcard sites

Vocabulary Games

 “Compleat” Lexical Tutor v.6.2 (the site where the frequency tests were)
Vocabulary list learning site
Cloze quiz for 2000 level (word bank given)

Using English for Academic Purposes (AEfAP)

CORPUS SITES
Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)

Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/c/corpus/corpus?page=home;c=micase;cc=micase

Grade Level Vocabulary Tests in Preparation for SAT (native speaker site /HARD)

GRE Vocabulary Audio /HARD)

Wiktionary