Personal Lexicon

A a simple tool designed to help you create your own lexicon.
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  • Free to try
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  • $20.00
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  • Personal Lexicon Software
  • Operating Systems:
  • Windows 7, Windows 2000, Windows Vista, Windows XP
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  • 1.01MB

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Personal Lexicon is a simple and easy-to-use application designed to help users create their own lexicon. It allows them to easily track what they learn in class and effortlessly retrieve what they need when they need it. The software supports a wide variety of testing features that can be used to create both audio and written exercises. Students can share data with each other and teachers can share lessons and/or assignments with their students. To start, students create a lexicon specifically customized for the language they are studying. Next, lexical items are added. These are words, phrases, or expressions with their corresponding definitions. Each item is assigned a lexical type (noun, verb, etc) and optionally other information like synonyms, antonyms, and conjugation forms. Students group lexical items into themes. Not only do themes help students organize their lexicons, they also promote studying of related vocabulary together. This is similar to how textbooks present vocabulary, but the difference here is that students create the groupings themselves, giving them extra significance. One of the best ways to make memory associations is to write sentences using vocabulary in a context. Personal Lexicon allows students to add these personal examples to lexical items and print them out so they can be checked for proper grammar by a teacher. Using the Audio Library students can attach audio to lexical items or personal examples. If students don't have their own audio files then downloading audio is snap using the Download Audio Service. With 23 languages available, most of the major world languages are easily accessible. As a student's lexicon grows, tests can be created to hone writing and listening comprehension. Four different written tests and 3 listening tests are available, each one having its own set of configurable options. With tests students can track their progress, each time trying to improve on their last score. Main features: Create a lexicon for practically any language: Create a lexicon for the purpose of learning almost any language. Define your own lexical types (i.e. nouns, verbs, particles, expressions, etc.) or use 1 of 5 predefined language templates (English, French, Portuguese, German, or Spanish). Define genders or classes for a particular lexical type. Create lexical items (i.e. words, phrases, or expressions), assigning each one a lexical type and one of more definitions. Add personal examples that show how to use the lexical item in context. Virtual keyboards make it easy to type almost any international character with the push of a button. Categorize lexical items into themes and sub-themes: Organize lexical items into themes and sub-themes so that you can study related vocabulary together in order to improve memory retention. Print lexical items by theme so that you can study away from the computer. Include only the information you want to have on the printout. View all items that aren't assigned to any theme and move them into one with a simple drag and drop. Link lexical items that are related: Include a variety of optional data with each lexical item like pronunciation, gender, root, conjugation forms, synonyms, antonyms, or general comments. Link phonetically similar or related items together. Jump to any item that has a relationship to the one you're viewing with a single click. Assess yourself with various tests and quizzes: Create different types of tests and quizzes from selected themes or lexical items. Test types include simple definition tests, multiple-choice tests, synonym/antonym tests, and example usage tests. Generate a test when you want to be able to take it multiple times and gauge your progress. Use pop quizzes for quick practice on the fly. Only include particular lexical types when building test questions or indicate that you only want the most recently entered lexical items. Configure your test or pop quiz according to your desired level of difficulty. Have the program give you hints when you can't quite remember the answer or make the test timed to really verify your mastery of the vocabulary. Print tests with or without answer keys. Share certain lexical items or your entire lexicon with others: Import or export an entire lexicon to a file. Import or export a list of lexical items so that you can share particular data with other students. Choose to ignore or overwrite lexical items that already exist in your lexicon. When importing, none of your existing data is altered in any way without prompting you first. Review all lexical items that you've just import and remove any that you don't want. Track & Search for lexical items with specific attributes: Automatically track each lexical item's difficulty rating so that you can focus on the ones that are giving you the most trouble. Track which personal examples have been verified by your teacher as grammatically correct. Assign a user-defined region to lexical item definitions when they mean something specific in a particular country or geographical area. Mark a lexical item as inactive once you've mastered it or when you're not sure you have the right definition. Use the quick text search to find lexical items based on item text or definition. Use advanced search capabilities to find a group of items that shared certain characteristics (ex. verbs that do not have any conjugations for a particular tense).


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