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Julie Baillie
Research Manager: Primary Division
Oxford University Press |
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Professor Joseph Lo Bianco
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Chair of Language and Literacy Education
Associate Dean (International)
University of Melbourne |
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Janet Scull
Lecturer
Language and Literacy Education
University of Melbourne |
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The Oxford Wordlist Interactive Tool
The Oxford Wordlist is the result of an extensive and robust research study conducted in 2007 by Oxford University Press. By examining approximately 4000 writing samples from over 1000 Australian students, researchers compiled the Oxford Wordlist, which represents the 307 most frequently used words by students in the first three years of school in their own writing. Research of this type has not been conducted in over 30 years.
Educators can access the Oxford Wordlist, The Words Children Write: Research Summary of the Oxford Wordlist Research Study and related classroom resources on this site.
The Oxford Wordlist Interactive Tool draws on the database of all words collected in the study, allowing educators to access frequently used words according to demographic characteristics. These characteristics include year of school, gender, ethnic or linguistic background, social or familial opportunity, and location of school.
By selecting those characteristics most relevant to students from a range of groups in their classrooms, educators can create customised word lists for early writers, use these lists to plan relevant programs, and determine those words most likely to allow all students to engage in the curriculum.
Lists can be created by selecting any combination of characteristics. For example, lists can be displayed considering one variable (such as gender), two variables (such as gender and year of school) or multiple variables (such as gender, year of school and location). The words generated in each list are those words most frequently used by students with that particular demographic profile.
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Oxford Wordlist © Oxford University Press 2008. The Oxford Wordlist may be used for instructional purposes for students at school and home.
If you wish to use the Oxford Wordlist in any other way, you must seek written permission from Oxford University Press.
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