Oxford Advanced Learner’s
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The Oxford 3000 and the Oxford 5000
What is the Oxford 3000?
The Oxford 3000 is a list of the 3,000 core words that every learner of English needs to know.
The words have been chosen based on their frequency in the Oxford English Corpus and relevance to learners of English. Every word is aligned to the CEFR*, guiding learners on the words they should know at A1-B2 level.
What is the Oxford 5000?
The Oxford 5000 is an expanded core word list for advanced learners of English.
As well as the Oxford 3000 core word list, it includes an additional 2,000 words that are aligned to the CEFR*, guiding advanced learners at B2-C1 level on the most useful high-level words to learn to expand their vocabulary.
*What is the CEFR?
CEFR stands for the ‘Common European Framework of Reference’ for languages, which is a description of the language abilities of students at different levels of learning. The CEFR can be used to compare standards in language learning and create teaching programmes.
It grades language skills at six levels:
- A1 and A2 indicate elementary and pre-intermediate levels of ability.
- B1and B2 indicate lower- and upper-intermediate levels.
- C1 indicates advanced level.
- C2 indicates complete proficiency in the language.
The CEFR grades language skills – what students can do in the language, for example ‘can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics’ (at B2). It does not grade specific grammar points or vocabulary items. However, we have aligned the words in the Oxford 3000 to the levels of the CEFR from A1 to B2 in order to guide learners of English on the most important words to learn at each level. These levels are based on the same criteria of frequency and relevance: the corpus of Secondary and Adult English courses enabled us to track the frequency of vocabulary items at each level of a course.
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