today I want to tell you something about an interesting website, which our teacher provided us with.
The link: http://www.lextutor.ca/vp/eng/
It is useful to evaluate any kind of English texts.
The program is searching for the frequency of words, that have been used.
It is separrating:
1.) K1 (most frequent 1000 words of English)
2.)K2 (second most frequent 1000 words of English)
3.)AWL (the 570 most frequently used words in academic texts across subjects)
4.) Off-list (the remainder which are not found on the other lists)
During our tutorial we had to perform like real managers negotiating about a topic, which was the expansion of a polish airport. Afterwards, we wrote a memo report about our negotiations.
I used the program of the website to look at my personal statistic of used words.
Following my findings:
The typical educated native speaker result is 70% from first 1000, 10% from second thousands, 10% academic and 10% less frequent words.
In conclusion, I realized that I used to many words from the first list (77.04%) and less words from second one (5.19%).This showed me, that I have to focus more on using those words to improve my writing in English, to come closer to the result of a typical native speaker.
Make the best out of your English and have a nice day,
Lennard
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