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| corpus | a collection of electronic text that can be analysed with linguistics software |
| CEF | the Council of Europe framework for Language Learning |
| learning portfolio | a collection of CEF documents that show the student's level of knowledge, work and intercultural experiences |
| threshold level | level B1 in the CEF band descriptors |
| Academic word list | the words which most commonly appear in academic writing once you take out the first 2,000 most commonly occurring words |
| file in native Hot Potatoes format | a file with a Hot Potatoes extension |
| blog | an easily updated web page that people can use as a diary |
| mp3 | a sound file in a compressed format |
| key words | words which appear more often in a particular text |
| concordancer | a program which allows you to study the way words combine in a corpus |
| B2 | an upper intermediate level as defined by the CEF |
| lexical approach | the idea that most progress in language learning comes from increasing lexical knowledge |
| Paul Nation | one of the main proponents of data driven learning |
