More Perl Fun

[robinturner]

When I checked my mail this morning, I found the following:

I was driving home this evening and could think of scripts, off the top of my head, that would make all English teacher's lives much more productive...

*histogram of all words a student uses diffed against the Academic Word List

So I wrote it. OK, it's not a real histogram, but it gives a general impression. It's here in case anyone's interested.

Comments

[alsoname.livejournal.com]

At the risk of sounding totally ignorant, what's the Academic Word List?

AWL

[solri.livejournal.com]

The Academic Word List was compiled by feeding a load of academic texts from different disciplines into a computer. The most common words that weren't among the 2,000 most common words in general English were taken as representative of academic vocabulary. You can find more information on it here (http://www.vuw.ac.nz/lals/staff/averil-coxhead/awl/awlinfo.html). I find it a very useful research and teaching tool.