Re: [school-discuss] English teacher apps

[robin <robin@Bilkent.EDU.TR>]

I've just updated that program for comparing texts to the Academic Word 
List. Changes:

1. No longer attempts to deal with HTML files - I'm putting this off for 
a while.
2. Works around the bug in Internet Explorer that puts a space between 
adjacent images (thus screwing up the bar charts).
3. Texts are also compared to the General Service List, and frequency of 
 words on that list is also printed.
4. It gives an off-the-cuff comment on the text ("erudite", "academic", 
"literate" or "colloquial") based on the ratio of AWL to GSL words.

As before, the working version is at 
http://lists.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin/cgibin/awlcheck.cgi and the source 
code is at http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin/awlcheck.tar.gz
The tarball contains the script, gifs for the barcodes, the General 
Service List and a README file. I haven't included the AWL sublists 
because of possible copyright problems.

Robin

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Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Universitesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey

www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin