Read (Red) Nose

Project Overview

Read Nose: Sniff out vocabulary. This is a Chrome extension based on educational word lists. The most studied word lists are the GSL and the AWL. The GSL covers about 80% of the words used in most English corpora by raw word count. The GSL + AWL covers about 90% of the words in academic contexts. Learning words from these lists can be highly beneficial.

• First 100 words: About 50% of everyday English text. These are mostly function words like the, be, of, and, and to.
• First 500 words: Roughly 65-70% of English text. Covers the majority of basic conversation and simple writing.
• First 1,000 words: About 75-80% of running words in typical texts.
• First 2,000 words: Around 80-85% of general written English. About 83% of newspaper text in some corpus studies.
• 2,000 words + Academic Word List: Roughly 87-90% coverage of academic texts.
• Around 8,000-9,000 words: Needed for 98% coverage, which researchers consider comfortable reading without help.

The extension simply detects which words are on the page and lists them in the popup. It is not intended to be a dictionary. It’s just a tool to help students narrow down the list of word they need to study, or to allow them to produce a word list to study before tackling the article. (Technologies: JavaScript, React, Material UI, CSS) Demo: