{"id":51201,"date":"2025-04-01T11:00:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T08:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishcentral.com\/blog\/?p=51201"},"modified":"2025-04-21T09:20:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T06:20:33","slug":"englishcentral-comprehensive-vocabulary-learning-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishcentral.com\/blog\/en\/news\/englishcentral-comprehensive-vocabulary-learning-system\/","title":{"rendered":"EnglishCentral\u2019s Comprehensive Vocabulary Learning System"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Now supports a free Vocabulary Level Test (oVLT) and “Semmas”<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n
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Boston, MA, USA, April 21, 2025. EnglishCentral released an update to its comprehensive vocabulary learning system new academic year in beginning in Asia. The update includes a new wordlists using word senses, called “semmas”, to capture the multiple meaning senses (polysemy) associated with many high frequency words.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t

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The core of EnglishCentral\u2019s vocabulary learning system is a corpus of over 5 million words, derived from 30,000 authentic English language videos, covering genres from academia, business, media, travel, kids and more. Each word from each video has been semantically tagged with its in-context meaning sense; its semma.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Wordlists ensure coverage of high-frequency words<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t
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The system includes research-supported high-frequency wordlists, which cover 92%* of word forms students are likely to encounter in an average newspaper, book, magazine, TV show, movie or daily speech. The system also supports speciality wordlists.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n

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\nGeneral Vocab<\/h2>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Each level on EnglishCentral contains a high-frequency wordlist mapped to CEFR (A0 to C2).<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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\nAcademic Vocab<\/h2>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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The most common word forms and semmas in academic texts and lectures.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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\nTOEIC Vocab<\/h2>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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The most common word forms and semmas in academic texts and lectures.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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\nBusiness Vocab<\/h2>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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The most common word forms and semmas for learners looking to master general business English situations.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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*Based on the New General Service List and other lists provided by Browne, C. & Culligan, B.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Diagnostic Mode Optimized for Individual Learners<\/h3>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t
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Unlike many vocab learning tools that demotivate students by repeatedly forcing them to learn words they already know, the EnglishCentral tools automatically mark words as known based on a diagnostic mode used when first introducing words to students to study.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Enforced Review Mode<\/h3>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t
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Unlike other tools which encourage students to learn words just once for a test, the EnglishCentral system forces students to review their weak words 80% of the time they study.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n

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Includes a state-of-the-art \u201cspeaking recall\u201d mode, powered by EnglishCentral\u2019s IntelliSpeech SystemSM, which tests students\u2019 ability to recall words correctly by speaking them in context. The system also supports multiple modes of increasing retrieval difficulty, including dictation, multiple-choice and typing, in each case with and without hints.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Multilingual Support<\/h3>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t
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Supports eleven different L1 languages: Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Arabic, Hebrew, Turkish, Spanish, Polish, Thai and Portuguese.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t

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Placement, Progress & Assessment Tests<\/h3>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t
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Students start with a placement test, mapped to CEFR levels. Then, weekly in-class vocabulary progress tests seamlessly tie outside of class study with in-class progress tests. The tests ensure students properly review, as each weekly progress test contains 50% review words, covering the full range of all past weeks. Finally, at the end of the course, students take an assessment test again mapped to CEFR levels to demonstrate their overall progress.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t

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A full suite of teacher tools allows teachers to set weekly goals for students, track the number of words students study each week, view results of weekly progress tests and quickly identify students who are falling behind on their vocabulary study.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t

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For more information or to try out EnglishCentral\u2019s Vocabulary Learning System, please fill out the form below.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t

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