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There is a growing trend among educators to embrace novel technology to enhance English language acquisition. It is imperative to be updated with new trends in learning, apart from the traditional methods. The study aims to have a positive impact on the way teachers introduce new vocabulary by equip-ping them with innovative and effective approaches to teaching vocabulary through corpus analysis and the use of technology. It will enable students, from beginners to advanced, to reach a real internalization of new words to get a deeper global understanding of the language. Nowadays, there are a significant number of programs freely available on the Web that offer us resources for language learning. This research focuses on vocabulary acquisition by applying a software called Lextutor.ca that displays several tools for linguistic analysis and learning English as a second or foreign language. This program works by man-aging corpora for academic purposes. It will allow users to have access to the storage corpora to obtain the most- relevant vocabulary of the language studied and practice it with contextualized exercises. For this purpose, six tools were selected due to their practicality and easy handling.
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Villamarin, G., Espinosa, L., Barrionuevo, K. (2024). Lextutor Program as a Tool to Teach ESL Vocabulary. In: Rocha, Á., Ferrás, C., Hochstetter Diez, J., Diéguez Rebolledo, M. (eds) Information Technology and Systems. ICITS 2024. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 933. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54256-5_4
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