Field Related
The FieldRelated.com is Bokomaru Publications' free vocabulary checker for learners of English as a Second Language. It was created to help college students and teachers in Quebec ensure that students use vocabulary in their reading, writing, and speaking that is related to their field of study. There are many programs that touch upon many fields of study. The relevance of any text to a particular program is difficult to quantify. FieldRelated.com is intended to help in the following ways.
Try it for yourself. Copy and paste an assignment into the text-box and hit analyze to see what it can do.
- When you paste a text into the text-area box and click analyze, the system compares the vocabulary in the text with word lists defined in the system. When it finds a match, it displays it under a the relevant field-of-study category heading.The category with the most matches is displayed first with a link to further language resources for that field.
- The system also helps learners determine if a text is academic in its word choice or conversational. This will help learners writing fiction to identify words in their dialogue that may seem overly formal, and learners writing academic texts will be able to find the words that seem overly conversational. Try it for yourself. Submit the following two sentences to see how the system works: All individuals ought to purchase their products at this location. Everybody should buy their stuff here.
- The Vocabulary tab provides an explanation of the difference between academic and conversational English in terms of frequency distribution in corpora.
- The Vocabulary tab also offers Quebec CEGEP students a handy English-French program name translator.
- Finally, the Vocabulary tab provides links to fields of study pages with glossaries and listening and speaking resources.
- It is free! There is no charge for using the system.
Try it for yourself. Copy and paste an assignment into the text-box and hit analyze to see what it can do.
