Which words do our french scientists need

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From my TESOL France presentation November 2013

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Elizabeth AnneUniversité Joseph Fourier@eannegrenoble

Frisians

Anglo-Saxon ?

Or Anglo-Norman ?

beef veal mutton pork

cows calves sheep pigs

reach •attain

climb •ascend

go down •descend

soak up •absorb

amount •quantity

understand •comprehend

mend •repair

clever •intelligent

Saxon or Normandown to earthplain

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http://corpus.byu.edu/bnc/

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Capitalizing on some accidents in the development of English (the Norman conquest and bifurcation of the language), Coxhead showed in a corpus study that a smallish set of 570 mainly Greco-Latin word families, of medium (post-2,000 level) frequency in English as a whole but much higher frequency in the discourse of scientific texts, when added to the 2,000 families of the General Service List (GSL; West, 1953) will normally give academic learners about 90% coverage in the texts they are studying (or a little more since they will also know some technical items in their subjects).

98% 8,000–9,000 word families (written)

6,000–7,000 for spoken

GSL + AWL

BNC list

23 GSL items that the BNC scheme classifies as 6k: Accustom procession

quarrelquartrejoiceroarsaucerscenttameTribevainveil.

applaudapplausebarberbeakcapecoarseconquerinquirenounoarpaste

280 AWL items falls within the first two 1,000 levels of the BNC

Extracts from :http://pandora.cii.wwu.edu/vajda/ling201/test3materials/History_of_English.htm

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