Vocabanalyzer: A referred word list analyzing tool with keyword, concordancing and N-gram functions (Article)

Abstract

This paper introduces the newly created VocabAnalyzer which is equipped with keyword, concordancing and n-gram functions. The VocabAnalyzer also allows the comparison of the inputted text against Jeng et al. (2002) vocabulary word list. Two case studies will be discussed in this paper. The first study compares two versions of the English Bible and the second study compares word list created by abstracts written by graduate students of various English departments in Taiwan. Both study shows that the VocabAnalyzer is beneficial for applied linguistics studies as well as for teaching and learning of English. Analyses of student writing can be carried out based on the results from this tool. © 2009 by Siaw-Fong Chung, F.Y. August Chao, and Yi-Chen Hsieh.