Thread:The rationale behind a lexical syllabus (1)

A good explanation of this approach is given here:

http://www.lextutor.ca/research/

My proposal is to fit the steps more around the wikipedia "Simple English". So a lexical syllabus looks like this:


 * 1) European framework basic user level A2 (Wordlist from Cambridge KET)
 * 2) Simple English (approximately the same size but more based on Basic English)
 * 3) European framework level B1 independent user
 * 4) The academic word list developed by Avril Coxhead see