Get Involved with Text Inspector
Are you a Text Inspector Super User? We are looking for a panel of experienced Text Inspector subscribers to get involved and help us improve and promote our industry-leading text analysis tool for the future. Do you use Text Inspector on a regular basis for your...
Announcing the Text Inspector/CRELLA Small Doctoral Research Grant
Doctoral Research Grant
We are delighted to announce that we have partnered with CRELLA (Centre for Research in English Language Learning and Assessment) to offer two research scholarships for qualified students who intend to pursue PhD studies that involve text analysis.
Lexical Profiles According to the CEFR: What Does Research Say?
One of our most widely used tools, the Text Inspector Scorecard uses widely respected metrics to explain the level of text according to the CEFR (the Common European Framework of Reference). This is the most widely used reference point in the world for language...
Professor Averil Coxhead: An Interview on using the Academic Word Lists to Boost Your English Language Learning
Averil Coxhead is an energetic and friendly Professor in Applied Linguistics in the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. She created the Academic Word List (AWL)- the most widely used and...
Using Authentic Materials in Foreign Language Teaching: How Text Inspector Can Help
As an English language teacher, you’ve no doubt come across a wide variety of different language learning materials such as course textbooks, vocabulary lists, grammar exercises, flashcards, audio recording and language learning apps. While they can be highly...
How to Select the Best EFL Materials for Your Classroom
Finding the best language learning materials for your EFL class can be a challenging task, especially if you’re a new teacher. If you’re working for a language course provider or employed by the Ministry of Education in a certain country, you may be provided...
How Technology Can Help Language Learners
Technology has changed the world dramatically over the last decade or so. These days, most of us communicate with friends and family, make new purchases, plan trips abroad, spend our leisure time and even catch up with the...
Reader Question: “What about the English Grammar Profile?”
A few weeks ago, we received the following questions in the comments section on the website. “Are there any plans to incorporate the EGP (English Grammar Profile)? If not, could you briefly explain the technical difficulties associated with combining the EVP (English...
The English Vocabulary Profile (EVP) in Language Teaching
The English Vocabulary Profile tool is one of the tools we use on Text Inspector to help us analyse the vocabulary of texts. Based on collaborative research conducted by two departments of the University of Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press and...
What Are Discourse & Metadiscourse Markers?
Metadiscourse markers are words or phrases that help connect and organise text, express attitude, provide evidence, to connect the reader to the writer and to ensure that the text ‘flows’ from one idea to the next. The term was first coined by American linguist...