Optimise Vocabulary for Specific Learners with Text Inspector’s KVL.

Analyse your text against knowledge-based vocabulary lists tailored for Spanish, German, and Chinese L1 speakers. Ensure your language is precisely accessible and promotes effective learning for specific learner groups.

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How Text Inspector’s KVL Feature Helps You

English Teaching Professionals

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Text Inspector’s KVL feature analyses your text against specialized vocabulary lists, helping you select words highly likely to be known by specific learner groups, leading to more effective learning outcomes.

ners with specific language backgrounds? Do you want to ensure your content uses vocabulary precisely tailored to their understanding?

Exam Boards, Language Centres, and Organisations

Are you developing training materials or critical communications for a global workforce learning English? Do you need to ensure your message is universally understood?

Text Inspector’s KVL feature analyses your text against specialized vocabulary lists for Spanish, German, and Chinese L1s, helping you choose words more likely to be understood by international audiences, enhancing clarity and effectiveness.

Understanding the KVL: Text Inspector’s Feature Breakdown

Knowledge-Based Vocabulary Lists

Analyses your text against specialized lists of the 5,000 most common English words, uniquely ranked by their familiarity to Spanish, German, and Chinese L1 learners.

Word Difficulty Ranking

Provides a precise difficulty ranking for each word in your text, indicating how likely learners from a specific language background are to know and correctly spell it.

Targeted Vocabulary Selection

Helps you choose vocabulary precisely appropriate for your target audience’s specific language proficiency and L1 background, ensuring optimal comprehension.

Improved Learning and Comprehension

Facilitates significantly more effective learning and comprehension by ensuring your language is accurately accessible to learners from different first language backgrounds.

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How does it work?

Paste Your Text

Simply copy and paste your English content into Text Inspector.

Analyse Your Text

Instantly receive in-depth insights into your text’s linguistic features.

Interpret and Optimise

Use data-driven results to inform your decisions and refine your language.

Ensure Global Comprehension with KVL

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How KVL Analysis Enhances Teaching and Learning

Material Selection

Choose texts with ideal vocabulary for your learners. Select resources where KVL ensures vocabulary is appropriate for students’ language background and proficiency, optimising comprehension.

Curriculum Development

Design curricula incorporating targeted vocabulary. Create lesson plans with KVL insights to ensure vocabulary is both challenging and attainable for your specific learners.

Assessment and Evaluation

Create accurate vocabulary assessments. Develop evaluations using KVL to precisely measure students’ vocabulary knowledge, objectively considering their first language background.

Personalized Learning

Tailor instruction to individual vocabulary needs. Use KVL to identify specific vocabulary gaps, allowing you to personalise activities for individual students or groups based on their L1.

KVL: Precision Language for Global Operations

Standardise Global Assessment Vocabulary

Ensure fair and consistent exams for diverse L1 learners. KVL objectively benchmarks the difficulty of vocabulary in test items against specific language backgrounds, guaranteeing precise assessment.

Optimise Multilingual Training Content

Develop universally comprehensible training materials. Analyse vocabulary against KVLs to ensure optimal accessibility for employees from Spanish, German, or Chinese-speaking backgrounds.

Enhance Cross-Cultural Communication

Refine external communications for global reach. Use KVL insights to select vocabulary that resonates clearly and is easily understood by international audiences, enhancing clarity and impact.

Streamline L1-Specific Material Creation

Efficiently create bespoke learning resources. KVL guides the selection of words known to specific L1 groups, accelerating the development of highly targeted curricula and materials.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are the KVL?

The Knowledge-Based Vocabulary Lists (KVL) are research-based lists of the 5,000 most common words known by Spanish, German, and Chinese learners of English.

How can the KVL feature help me improve my teaching or content?

By analysing your text against the KVL, you can identify vocabulary that might be challenging for learners from specific language backgrounds and make informed choices to improve comprehension and engagement.

Is the KVL feature only useful for teaching or creating content for specific language groups?

While particularly useful for those groups, the KVL feature can also be valuable for anyone who wants to ensure their writing is accessible to a wider audience, including those learning English as a second language.

How accurate are the KVL?

The KVL are based on extensive research and testing of English language learners, providing a reliable indicator of word difficulty for different language backgrounds.

Why Professionals Use Text Inspector

In my role as an academic at Universidad de Santiago, Chile, I have found Text Inspector to be an invaluable resource in my academic activities. This tool offers a great range of functionalities that significantly enhance both teaching and research activities. Primarily, Text Inspector serves as a powerful instrument for identifying and analysing linguistic patterns in student writing. Its lexical diversity and error detection features provide insightful feedback, allowing me to define areas where students can enhance their academic writing skills.

José Luis Poblete

Adjunct Professor Universidad de Santiago, Chile

I have used Text Inspector since 2018 when I embarked on a research project examining reading texts to develop CEFR aligned reading tests. Using TI tool to help guage the reading level of each texts made it easy for my team to select and determine texts that are appropriate for each CEFR level A1-C2. We especially appreciate the text analysis tools that helped us to distinguish each level of text type from that of another level at a deeper level compared to other available text analysis tools.

I am an item writer for a number of exam boards that offer exams in English as a second or foreign language. Text Inspector has become an indispensable tool for me in creating test items appropriate for different language levels and age ranges. It is easy and quick to use, and allows differentiation by language skills required and a flexible approach to reporting. I can unreservedly recommend it to those who work in exam preparation.

Martin Eayrs

Freelance Consultant in English Language Teaching and Education

Text inspector was crucial to identifying reading ease as well as CEFR levels for when we were writing reading comprehension assessments. I was able to enter lengthy texts and look at the data. I always have my own idea of what a text level is and found that the text inspector confirmed this. Included in the data was a breakdown of lexis CEFR levels and this was extremely useful as I was able to use this data to explain to colleagues why some texts we wanted to use were either suitable or unsuitable for assessments.