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What is Vocabulary profiler

Chapter 37
Handbook of Research on Discourse Behavior and Digital Communication: Language Structures and Social Interaction
a computer program that analyzes text to group words into categories by frequency of use and degree of technicality.
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When the Online Conversation is Prompted
Boyd H. Davis (University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA), Mary K. Smith (University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA), and Shu-Chiao Tsai (University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA)
Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 13
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-773-2.ch037
Abstract
This discussion reviews discourse in three sets of data drawn from online forums for nursing, applied linguistics and nursing assistant courses. Findings are presented from the application of two measurement tools to postings attracting peer responses: SOLO, or Structure of Observed Learning Outcomes (Biggs & Collis, 1982; Schrire, 2006; Rourke & Kanaka 2009) and the Practical Inquiry Model of Cognitive Presence (Garrison et al, 2000). Since assessment of online writing is an issue that often concerns teachers using asynchronous conferencing in blended classes, the authors also examine changes in propositional density using CPIDR (Covington, 2007) and analyze vocabulary levels with a Vocabulary Profiler to see how students integrate the appropriate technical and professional or academic lexicon that presumably has formed part of their learning.
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