Milkyway-Cloze: Vocabulary Practice Based on Context Cognition
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1 Overview
Milkyway-Cloze is a web application as well as a novel learning method of vocabulary development, which
- Extracts ONLINE the recommended vocabulary worth learning from any article provided;
- And generates a CLOZE practice right within the context which is tremendously helpful in building endurable cognitive verbal memory.
2 Start Up:
2.1 Select a LEVEL with the proper vocabulary coverage for learning.
2.2 PASTE the article and click START.
2.3 Click CLOZE to launch the spelling practice.
2.3.1 Control keys for the cloze:
Convenient shortkeys during the cloze process:
| Key | Function |
|---|---|
| ,-Comma / .-Dot | previous / next blank |
| SPACE (or BACKSPACE) | clear the current blank |
| ;-SEMICOLON (or ENTER) | show the full answer of the current blank |
| 1 | show the partial answer of the current blank |
| 5 | complete the current blank |
| 4 | toggle marks of the current blank |
| 9 | the 5th of the previous blanks |
| 0 | the 5th of the proceeding blanks |
2.4 Click START-READING to listen to the vocabulary.
The reading pace (intervals between words) is adjustable.
2.5 EXPORT or LOAD the study record.
- The last line of the text is used to generate the file name.
- The date is added automatically to the filename.
- The learning record is only refreshed each time you click PAUSE.
2.6 IMPORT-LISTS: Load multiple record files to exclude the redundant words
The words marked as blue in imported files will be automatically marked blue in the present article.
3 Code Explanation
3.1 rules.js
- The transformation rules of English postfixes are stored in ruleArray: Array<String>.
- Each clause represents both an invert-transforming rule and a filter rule.
- Custom entries can be inserted so as to capture more word variants following the examples bellow:
| Rule Example | Effect Example |
|---|---|
| -s | meets -> meet |
| -g-n-i+e | voting -> vote |
| -s-e-i+y | treaties -> treaty |
| -g-n-i-%2-%s-%1$$ | sitting -> sit * |
See rules.js for more information.
Explain: *
- %2 = A consonant letter (the second t in sitting)
- %s = One same letter as previous deleted (the first t in sitting)
- %1 = A vowel letter (the first i in sitting)
- $ = Restore one letter from the stack top ( i and t once deleted are restored)