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Copyright 2011 Lexxica

Guy Cihi and Brent Culligan

TOEIC VocabularySecrets Revealed

Dec 2011

Lexxica Corporation2-7-8 Shibuya 5FShibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0002

[email protected]


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Corpus analysis reveals that 1/3

of the words in all parts of everyTOEIC test are NOT commonwords in general English.

TOEIC versus General English



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Students who study with traditional

4-skills textbooks and readers willnot develop fluency for 33% of theHigh-Frequency words thatcommonly occur on every TOEIC.

What does this mean?



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312,500 words (25%) are from

actual TOEIC tests

937,500 words (75%) are fromhigh quality practice tests

Our TOEIC Corpus Analysis



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1,250,000 total words

14,652 different words



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Just 6,480 different words

constitute 99% of allword occurrences.




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982 different words constitute90% of all word occurrences.

These 982 words are the absolutelyessential Super-High-Frequency

words of TOEIC.




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Examples: lettersA

and

G 35

TOEIC General

A a a

ability abandon

able ability

aboard able

about about

above above

abroad abroad

absence absence

absent absolute

absolutely absolutely

abstract absorb

accept abuse

acceptable academic

acceptance accept

TOEIC General

G gain gain

gallery gall

gallon + + game

game gap

garage garage

garbage garden

garden gas

gardener gastric

gas gate

gasoline gather

gate gaze

gather gear

gender gene

general general

27% of high frequencyA

words are exclusive

to TOEIC

33% of high frequencyG

words are exclusive

to TOEIC

Frequent only in the TOEIC corpus.

Frequent only in the General corpus.

Note: The general corpus used for comparison contains one billion words from all genres.


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TOEIC is an Item Response TheoryProficiency Test not an English

ability diagnostic test.

Students are not scored for theirEnglish language ability.

Students are scored along a bell-curve againstthe relative abilities of other students.


TOEIC: Esoteric Facts 1


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Without difficult Items, Education Testing ServiceETS,would be unable to maintain its bell-curveand generate accurate scores.

ETS uses difficult vocabulary and third or fourthdefinitions to create difficult Items.




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ETS must regularly recycle TOEIC questionsor their IRT scoring system will not work.

New TOEIC questions are written by a smallteam with low turnover amongst the members.

TOEIC high-frequency vocabularyis regular and predictable.




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ETS has never, and likely will never, issue a vocabularyguide for any of its major tests including: TOEIC,TOEFL, SAT and GRE.

Why?Because obscure vocabulary is the most reliable wayfor the test authors to create the difficult questionsthat are required to generate accurate scores along

a bell curve.




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Our Solution

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High Difficulty (Not well-known)

A scatter plot of TOEIC vocabulary

MoreFrequent

LessFrequent

Low Difficulty (Well-known)

Each dot represents one high frequency word in the TOEIC domain Difficulty statistics are calculated by Lexxicas patented technical system


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southern

fill up

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garment

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Student does notneed to learn

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garment

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known and unknown TOEIC words

Student does notneed to learn

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Student alreadyknows theseTOEIC words.

Student knows thesewords, but does not

need them for TOEIC.

Student does notknow these wordsand needs to learnthem for TOEIC.

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Guy CihiLexxica Corporation2-7-8 Shibuya 5FShibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0002

[email protected]

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