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502 Words that Can Be Learned with Total Physical Response (TPR) (Reid Wilson)
stand up, sit down, walk, stop, turn left, turn right, ...

6,000 most frequently used English words (Bruce Zhang)
Ranked by frequency and linked to an online WordNet dictionary

A short (20,000) word dictionary of English (Mike Hammond)
Search by spelling, number of syllables, stress pattersn, frequency or combo.

Big Doggy's Word Lists (Brian Wagner)
Perhaps useful for materials writers. -ABLE, -AGE, BIO-, CON-, -FUL, etc.

CEMS - Vocabulary Pictures (Taegu City Government of Education)
Only Pictures, no words: occupations, food, colors, jewelry, body, time, ...

Conc
A concordance generator for the Macintosh (Beta version is freeware.)

Daulton's Japanese Loanwords & English Vocabulary Acquisition Homepage (Frank E. Daulton)
Daulton's research papers online.

Differences between British, Canadian and American Spelling and Vocabulary (Karen Barnes)
Just what the title says it is.

Forbidden Words, Expletives and Obscenities
Introduction to American English, University of Tampere

FreeText Archive (Freeware) (Mark Zimmermann)
Concordance software: Mac HyperCard Stack and 32-bit DOS version

Homophone Zone (Alan Cooper)
The site uses a 'modern' web design that may not work for your browser.

List Frequency Search (Department of Psychology, University of Essex)
Input a list of words and get their associated frequencies per million.

List of High-Frequency Baseword Vocabulary for Japanese EFL Students
By Frank E. Daulton, The Internet TESL Journal, July 1999

List of High-Frequency Baseword Vocabulary for Japanese EFL Students #2
By Frank E. Daulton, The Internet TESL Journal, March 2003

MyWord.info - Study Prefixes (Bob Ware)
anti, arch, auto, bene, circum, co, counter, de, dia, en, ...

Paul Nation's vocabulary programs (DOS Software)
Can be used for looking at the occurrence of various levels of vocabulary.

Plain text versions of the frequency lists contained in WFWSE (BNC)
WFWSE = Word Frequencies in Written and Spoken English

Second language vocabulary resourses (Rob Waring)
Word lists, 23,000+ item bibliography, links and papers

Simple Concordance Program (Alan Reed)
Freeware for 32bit Intel Windows 95/98/NT4/ME/2000

Simple Concordance Program (Windows and MacosX) [FRAME] (Alan Reed)
Lets you create word lists and search text file; Free

Simplified English (Userlab Inc.)
See the link to the 34 pg. PDF file on rules and approved vocabulary.

The Business Emporium - Advertising Vocabulary (Chris Yukna)
Vocabulary list with definitions and 3 related pages.

Two Thousand Regularly Decodable Words (Douglas Corin)
only one sound per alphabet letter and only the single sounds of the alphabet

Variation in English Words and Phrases (Mark Davies)
Quickly and easily search the 100 Million Word British National Corpus. It may be a little confusing for students to use without guidance from a teacher.

Web Concordancer (Chris Greaves)
Simple Search / Associated Words

Web Vocabulary Profiler (Paul Nation / Tom Cobb)
Paste in text and get it back color-coded according to word frequency.

Web Vocabulary Profiler (Tom Cobb)
Paste in text and see the number of words by frequency level.

Why example sentences in dictionaries are more important than definitions. (Tomasz P. Szynalski)
An article aimed at high level ESL students.

Word Frequency Counter on the Web (Masatoshi Sugiura)
Paste some text into the form and get a word frequency list.

www.ESLsite.com - Animal Idioms (Lesson Idea) (Frank Black)
Brief introductory ideas and a handout for the students.

www.ESLsite.com - Your Own Lexicon (Lesson Idea) (Frank Black)
Give each student a word, they look it up, then explain it to other students.

www.EverydaySpelling.com (Addison Wesley Longman, Inc.)
For native English speakers, G1 to G8. Puzzle Place, Words in the News, Lists, .

www.forumeducation.net - ESL/EFL teachers' vocabulary (Sven Cederberg)
A world wide project to assess the vocabulary of non-native ESL/EFL teachers

www.tefl.net - ELT Industry Terminology (Tara Behari)
A guide to the abbreviations and acronyms commonly used in the ELT world.

www.tefl.net - Vocabulary Games and Worksheets (Alex Case)
Photocopiable fun vocab practice

www.TheIrregularVerbs.com (Adolfo Bieri)
The Irregular Verbs with examples and funny cartoons

z_Concordances and Corpora Tutorial (Catherine N. Ball)
This three-hour tutorial is derived from my Corpus Linguistics course. (1997)
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Possibly at web.archive.org (..usually without the author's consent.):
web.archive.org/http://www.georgetown.edu/cball/corpora/tutorial.html

z_Concordances of Great Books (William A. Williams, Jr)
Texts and Fully Searchable Concordances

z_English Word Finder (Ignore the Japanese on the page.)
*ful = finds words ending with 'ful' / acc* finds words beginning with 'acc'
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Possibly at web.archive.org (..usually without the author's consent.):
web.archive.org/http://muse.2.pro.tok2.com/pb/kensaku/kensaku3.cgi

z_ESL Glossary (at www.ballard-tighe.com) (Constance O. Williams)
A brief glossary with good definitions.
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Possibly at web.archive.org (..usually without the author's consent.):
web.archive.org/http://www.ballard-tighe.com/Ballard-Tighe/source/CommunityHTML/glossary.htm

z_Georgetown Linguistics - Web Frequency Indexer (Catherine N. Ball)
Paste text into the form and get a word frequency list.
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web.archive.org/http://www.georgetown.edu/cball/webtools/web_freqs.html

z_JACET 8,000 Level Marker (Shimizu)
Input text, click button and see words marked in output
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Possibly at web.archive.org (and if so, probably without the author's consent.):
web.archive.org/*/http://jacetvoc.kl.dendai.ac.jp/~shimizu/J8LevelMarker/j8lm.cgi

z_JACET 8,000 Level Marker - Revised Web Edition (Shimizu)
Shows each word, its level, how many times used, and also calculate %.
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web.archive.org/*/http://jacetvoc.kl.dendai.ac.jp/~shimizu/j8web/j8web.cgi

z_Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee Consolidated Word List
22,014 unique words in PDF files. Teachers will need to choose words for ESL.
Link Check Status = FORBIDDEN ERROR. The owner of the page apparently now doesn't allow access.
Possibly at web.archive.org (..usually without the author's consent.)::
web.archive.org/http://www.spellingbee.com/cwl.shtml

z_Word Frequency of English Words Used by Japanese Students (John Izzo)
July 4, 2002. I, to, the, and, is a/an, in, of, my, for, it, that, are, ...
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Possibly at web.archive.org (..usually without the author's consent.):
web.archive.org/http://www.hagi.ac.jp/gakubu/izzoweb/WdFreq.htm

z_www.4-esl.com [FRAME] (Diana Campbell)
Note: Site has problems when visited with Netscape 4.8. Flashcards with pictures, ...
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Possibly at web.archive.org (and if so, probably without the author's consent.):
web.archive.org/*/http://www.4-esl.com/

z_www.forumeducation.net - Building vocabulary: Understanding the use of prefixes (Sven Cederberg)
Step by step instruction on the use of Latin prefixes
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web.archive.org/http://www.forumeducation.net/servlet/pages/vi/mat/word001.htm

z_z_The 5,000 Word List - Linda/Tonoike 1996.
Listed alphabetically.
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web.archive.org/*/http://eslsv001.esl.sakuragaoka.ac.jp/teachers/BR/WordLists/linda5000.html

z_zz_Modern Language Association's What's the Word (Radio Show)
Streaming RealAudio or MP3 (1997-2002)
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web.archive.org/http://www.mla.org/radio/radio_shows

z_zzz_ESL Zone 1 - Parts of the Body (Amir Hussain Syed)
Matching exercise. This page did't work on a Macintosh when we tried it.
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web.archive.org/*/http://.tripod.com/Grammar/vocab/body.htm

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