Keyword Guidelines
Below is a set of guidelines to help you choose keywords. However, the most important thing is to put yourself in a student`s place and ask yourself what would a student wanting to find your site be searching for. This set of guidelines should help you achieve this.
- Do include relevant grammatical metalanguage in your keywords.
- Do include all plain-English (or other language) keywords that occur in the lesson and are relevant to the target of the lesson.
- Do include common mistakes or mis-spellings in your keywords.
- Do not include incidental words that occur in the lesson; words that are not target-language.
- Do not include related words that do not occur in the lesson except for grammatical metalanguage and common mistakes or mis-spellings.
Sample Submission
We will walk through the submission process for an imaginary lesson. The lesson is on the modal “could” with sections on “was able” and “managed to.”
- Grammatical Metalanguage Keyword: modal, modals.
- Plain Language: can, could, could not, couldn't, was able, were able, was not able, were not able, wasn't able, weren't able, managed to.
- Common Mistakes: couldnt, wern't, werent.
Below are examples of what not to include. Words in bold should not be included as keywords in our example.
- Incidental Words: I could help.
- Related words that don't occur in the lesson: should, would, may, might
This is a very simple lesson. It is acceptable to have more than just one target for your lesson, unlike the above lesson. If you need any clarifications please feel free to contact us.