Learning and teaching languages is full of numbers that look exact and are not: a level, a vocabulary size, an interval. This desk takes them apart one at a time. What B1 actually licenses you to do, how many words a newspaper needs, why a spacing schedule stops working, and which drill fixes which gap.
Every material on this desk, longest first.
| Material | Language | Kind | Words |
|---|---|---|---|
| What You Can Actually Do at B1 Level (and What the CEFR Never Promises) | English | Feature | 1074 |
| Mother-Tongue Instruction Is Not a Slogan: The DepEd Orders That Actually Define Philippine MTB-MLE | English | Feature | 1072 |
| How Many Words to Read a Newspaper? The Answer Depends on What You Count | English | Feature | 807 |
| Shadowing, Dictation and Chorusing: Three Drills for Three Different Gaps | English | Feature | 766 |
| Why Spaced Repetition Stops Working: The Interval Is Not the Problem | English | Feature | 724 |
| Gamification in Language Apps: Boon or Distraction? | English | Feed | 692 |
| Total | 1 languages | 6 materials | 5,135 |
What the levels, the vocabulary numbers and the drills actually measure — and what they do not.
Learning & teaching languagesEnglish1074 words
The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages does not measure how long you have studied, how many words you know, or what score you got on a test. It publishes "can-do" descriptors: concrete statements of what a learner can handle in specific situations.
English · 1074 words · Read
Learning & teaching languagesEnglish807 words
The percentage of words in a text that a reader actually knows—what researchers call "lexical coverage"—is the number that determines whether reading flows or stutters. But ask "how many words do you need?" and the answer collapses into confusion unless you first specify the unit of counting. A word family bundles "run," "runs," "running," and "runner" together.
English · 807 words · Read
Learning & teaching languagesEnglish724 words
The interval in a spaced-repetition system is not a magic timer that fixes weak cards. SuperMemo says it schedules each review at the point where the probability of remembering an item drops to 90%, and a successful retrieval earns a longer delay while a failed one brings the card back within days. When a deck stops working, the culprit is rarely the algorithm. It is almost always the card.
English · 724 words · Read
Learning & teaching languagesEnglish1072 words
The argument over mother-tongue instruction in Philippine public schools rarely matches the documents that govern it. Supporters call it a remedy for early-grade dropout; critics call it an obstacle to English. Both sides often treat the policy as a slogan rather than a set of published conditions with specific limits.
English · 1072 words · Read
Learning & teaching languagesEnglish766 words
Language learners often cycle through the same recording hoping something will stick. The real problem is rarely effort; it is mismatch. Three drills—shadowing, dictation and chorusing—target three separate failures. One trains the mouth to keep pace with native rhythm. One forces the ear to turn sound into written form. One burns a short phrase into fluent, automatic speech.
English · 766 words · Read
Learning & teaching languagesEnglish692 words
English · 692 words · Read