The General Service List (GSL) is a set of 2,284 essential English words for learners, initially created in 1953 and updated in 1995. It organizes headwords into word families based on linguistic criteria and ranks them by frequency using data from the Brown Corpus. The revised GSL provides a more accurate and comprehensive tool for language learning.
The beginner-to-low-intermediate word lists for adolescent learners of French align with national curriculum requirements in England and draw on large, multi-genre corpora and adolescent-relevant materials and contain 1,250 items at foundation level (targeting CEFR A1–A2) and 1,750 at higher level (targeting CEFR A2–B1). On average, the lists cover 76% (foundation) and 81% (higher) of corpora representing adolescent language use.
The beginner-to-low-intermediate word lists for adolescent learners of German align with national curriculum requirements in England and draw on large, multi-genre corpora and adolescent-relevant materials and contain 1,250 items at foundation level (targeting CEFR A1–A2) and 1,750 at higher level (targeting CEFR A2–B1). The lists cover 70% (foundation) and 78% (higher) of corpora representing adolescent language use.
The beginner-to-low-intermediate word lists for adolescent learners of Spanish align with national curriculum requirements in England and draw on large, multi-genre corpora and adolescent-relevant materials and contain 1,250 items at foundation level (targeting CEFR A1–A2) and 1,750 at higher level (targeting CEFR A2–B1). On average, the lists cover 76% (foundation) and 82% (higher) of corpora representing adolescent language use.
The BNC/COCA headword lists contain the headwords from the 25,000 BNC/COCA word families that come with the Range program. The first 2,000 or 3,000 words of the BNC/COCA lists are an alternative to the General Service List.