Beyond Single Words: Master Natural English with PHRASE List Analysis.

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Common Challenges, Solved: How Text Inspector’s PHRASE List Analysis Feature Helps you

English Teaching Professionals

Do you want to equip your students with the essential phrases for effective communication? Do you need a tool to help them analyse and understand common English phrases?

Text Inspector’s PHRASE List feature helps you to objectively analyse student writing and identify gaps in their use of phrasal expressions, idioms, and collocations. This allows you to give targeted feedback on multi-word units, significantly improving students’ fluency, naturalness, and overall language proficiency.

Exam Boards, Language Centres, and Organisations

Do you need to ensure your teaching materials and assessments reflect authentic, natural English usage? Do you need to avoid overly complex or confusing phrasal expressions in your content?

The PHRASE List feature analyses your content against a list of common, high-frequency expressions (K1-K5). This allows your organisation to validate the authenticity and naturalness of teaching resources and assessments, ensuring that the multi-word language used is both appropriate for the proficiency level and representative of genuine usage.

Demystifying Phrases: Text Inspector’s Feature Breakdown

PHRASE List Analysis

Analyses your text against a curated list of common English expressions. This includes essential idioms, phrasal verbs, collocations, and binomial expressions crucial for advanced fluency.

Frequency-Based Difficulty (K1-K5)

Assigns a difficulty level (K1-K5) to each phrase. This ranking is based on its frequency in the British National Corpus (BNC), objectively indicating its commonality and learnability.

Frequency and Distribution

Shows how often these multi-word units appear and where they are located. This provides objective data on usage patterns, helping you understand their true prominence in your content.

Contextual Examples

Provides real-world examples of how phrases are used. Explore their authentic usage in different contexts, gaining a deeper understanding of their nuanced meanings and applications.

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Enhancing Fluency and Naturalness in the Classroom with PHRASE list

Teach Authentic, Natural Fluency

Moves instruction beyond single words by revealing which common collocations and phrasal verbs are frequently used by native speakers, guiding students to natural expression.

Structure Phrasal Instruction (K1-K5)

Utilise the K1-K5 frequency ranking to structure vocabulary lessons. This allows you to introduce multi-word units in a logical order, progressing from basic to more complex expressions.

Objectively Assess Writing Sophistication

Quantify the student’s active range. Analyse student writing to identify gaps in their usage of common phrasal expressions, providing objective feedback on their naturalness and lexical maturity.

Validate Advanced Reading Materials

Quickly assess if a higher-level text provides the rich, formulaic language necessary for B2/C1 comprehension and acquisition, ensuring materials offer sufficient language depth.

How PHRASE List helps Standardizing Multi-Word Assessment

Standardise Assessment Difficulty

Benchmark test items against the K1-K5 frequency grading. This ensures consistent difficulty in questions that assess knowledge of idioms, phrasal verbs, and common collocations.

Ensure Material Authenticity

Verify that all reading passages, test items, and curriculum content reflect genuine, contemporary usage of multi-word units, enhancing the credibility of your materials.

Develop Targeted Test Items

Pinpoint common, high-frequency phrasal expressions to create focused, non-ambiguous assessment tasks, streamlining the development of reliable grammar and vocabulary test sections.

Monitor Curriculum Progression

Objectively track the progression of formulaic language introduced across different course levels, ensuring students are exposed to increasingly complex and natural multi-word units at the right stages.

Frequently Asked Questions

How is the PHRASE List different from a regular vocabulary list?

The PHRASE LIST is distinct because it focuses solely on multi-word units (idioms, phrasal verbs, collocations) rather than single words, unlike standard lists that often miss these fundamental “key phrases”.

How are the K1-K5 levels assigned to the phrases?

The K1-K5 levels are assigned based on the phrase’s frequency of appearance in the British National Corpus (BNC). A K1 phrase is highly common (appearing in the most frequent 1,000 words), while K5 phrases are less frequent.

Can I use PHRASE list to check for natural-sounding language in student writing?

Yes. The PHRASE LIST is an excellent tool for assessing naturalness. By analyzing student writing, you can identify where learners rely on single words instead of appropriate multi-word expressions.

How does the PHRASE List helps create fairer language assessments?

The PHRASE LIST helps standardize the assessment of nuanced language. By providing objective frequency data for collocations and idioms, it ensures that your exam items are testing multi-word units that are genuinely common and appropriate for the target level, thus enhancing the credibility and fairness of your test.

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 analyse 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.