The present article wants to discuss advantages and limitations of word frequency counts for foreign language teaching and ways of putting them to good use. It will do so along a review of the "Leuven English Teaching Vocabulary-list" (the LET-list), (shorty also of) the authorware "A.D.A.M. & E.V.E." (Automated Document Analyis and Manipulation and Extensive Variety of Exercises) and the courseware "CTP" (Comprehension Training Package), and in a detailed presentation of the current E.E.T.-project in our department, the "Extended English Teaching Vocabulary-List". The whole discussion circles around a sensible and responsible use and manipulation of an amount of objective data, combined with (inter-)subjective choices, into an instrument that allows teacher and learner to manage vocabulary learning from authentic text materials systemtically and reliably
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