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517: 61:, developed by Xue and Nation in 1986. The words included in the AWL were selected based on their range (breadth of academic areas covered), frequency, and dispersion (uniformity of frequency), and were divided into ten sublists, each containing 1000 words in decreasing order of frequency. The AWL excludes words from the 109: 92: 309:
Hancioglu, N., Neufeld, S., & Eldridge, J. (2008). Through the looking glass and into the land of lexico-grammar. English for Specific Purposes 27/4, 459-479
57: 67:(the 2000 highest-frequency words in general texts). Many words in the AWL are general vocabulary not restricted to an academic domain, such as the words 295:
Green, C. (2019). Enriching the academic wordlist and Secondary Vocabulary Lists with lexicogrammar: Toward a pattern grammar of academic vocabulary.
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Coxhead, A. (2012). Academic Vocabulary, Writing and English for Academic Purposes: Perspectives from Second Language Learners.
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found in Sublist One, and the AWL only accounts for a small percentage of the actual word occurrences in academic texts.
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Hyland, K., & Tse, P. (June 2007). Is there an "Academic Vocabulary"? TESOL Quarterly, Volume 41, Number 2, pp. 235-253.
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Coxhead, A. (2000). A New Academic Word List. TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Summer, 2000), pp. 213-238
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Vocabulary myths : applying second language research to classroom teaching
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In the second decade of the twenty-first century, a revised list, called the
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Teaching readers of English : students, texts, and contexts
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at the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at
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which appear with great frequency in a broad range of
121:, like the AWL, the AVL is composed of 3000 English 113:, based on the Academic Word List, drawing from the 569: 170: 552: 357: 240: 160:(in Japanese). University of Michigan Press. 96:(NAWL), was developed and made public. This 171:Hedgcock, John S.; Ferris, Dana R. (2018). 43:students intending to enter English-medium 559: 545: 364: 350: 496:Japanese-Language Proficiency Test / JLPT 177:(in Japanese) (2nd ed.). Routledge. 188:Chen, Qi; Ge, Guang-chun (2007-01-01). 115:Corpus of Contemporary American English 41:English as a second or foreign language 570: 241:Gardner, D.; Davies, M. (2013-08-02). 187: 460:Test of Chinese as a Foreign Language 345: 153: 511: 280:https://www.jstor.org/stable/3587951 13: 14: 604: 320: 53:Victoria University of Wellington 515: 243:"A New Academic Vocabulary List" 228:"New Academic Word List (NAWL)" 234: 220: 181: 164: 147: 1: 478:Test of Proficiency in Korean 194:English for Specific Purposes 140: 531:. You can help Knowledge by 394:Simplified Technical English 7: 453:Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi / HSK 128: 39:. The target readership is 10: 609: 510: 487: 469: 444: 427: 380: 315:10.1016/j.esp.2008.08.001 206:10.1016/j.esp.2007.04.003 102:Simple English Wiktionary 418:New General Service List 154:Folse, Keith S. (2004). 110:Academic Vocabulary List 373:Word lists by frequency 583:Lists of English words 93:New Academic Word List 259:10.1093/applin/amt015 412:General Service List 135:General Service List 100:is available on the 64:General Service List 58:University Word List 578:Lexis (linguistics) 375:and number of words 337:Levels tests online 327:Academic Vocabulary 247:Applied Linguistics 435:Academic Word List 18:Academic Word List 593:Linguistics stubs 540: 539: 505: 504: 332:Vocabulary in EAP 600: 561: 554: 547: 519: 512: 366: 359: 352: 343: 342: 271: 270: 238: 232: 231: 224: 218: 217: 185: 179: 178: 168: 162: 161: 151: 45:higher education 608: 607: 603: 602: 601: 599: 598: 597: 568: 567: 566: 565: 508: 506: 501: 483: 465: 440: 423: 406:Special English 376: 370: 323: 275: 274: 239: 235: 226: 225: 221: 186: 182: 169: 165: 152: 148: 143: 131: 12: 11: 5: 606: 596: 595: 590: 585: 580: 564: 563: 556: 549: 541: 538: 537: 520: 503: 502: 500: 499: 491: 489: 485: 484: 482: 481: 473: 471: 467: 466: 464: 463: 456: 448: 446: 442: 441: 439: 438: 431: 429: 425: 424: 422: 421: 415: 409: 403: 397: 391: 384: 382: 378: 377: 369: 368: 361: 354: 346: 340: 339: 334: 329: 322: 321:External links 319: 318: 317: 307: 304: 293: 282: 273: 272: 253:(3): 305–327. 233: 219: 200:(4): 502–514. 180: 163: 145: 144: 142: 139: 138: 137: 130: 127: 49:Averil Coxhead 37:academic texts 9: 6: 4: 3: 2: 605: 594: 591: 589: 586: 584: 581: 579: 576: 575: 573: 562: 557: 555: 550: 548: 543: 542: 536: 534: 530: 527:article is a 526: 521: 518: 514: 513: 509: 497: 493: 492: 490: 486: 479: 475: 474: 472: 468: 461: 457: 454: 450: 449: 447: 443: 436: 433: 432: 430: 426: 419: 416: 413: 410: 407: 404: 401: 398: 395: 392: 389: 388:Basic English 386: 385: 383: 379: 374: 367: 362: 360: 355: 353: 348: 347: 344: 338: 335: 333: 330: 328: 325: 324: 316: 312: 308: 305: 302: 298: 294: 291: 287: 283: 281: 277: 276: 268: 264: 260: 256: 252: 248: 244: 237: 229: 223: 215: 211: 207: 203: 199: 195: 191: 184: 176: 175: 167: 159: 158: 150: 146: 136: 133: 132: 126: 124: 120: 119:word families 116: 112: 111: 105: 103: 99: 95: 94: 88: 86: 82: 78: 74: 70: 66: 65: 60: 59: 54: 50: 46: 42: 38: 34: 33:word families 31: 27: 23: 19: 533:expanding it 522: 507: 434: 300: 296: 289: 286:RELC Journal 285: 250: 246: 236: 222: 197: 193: 183: 173: 166: 156: 149: 108: 106: 91: 89: 84: 80: 76: 72: 68: 62: 56: 21: 17: 15: 525:linguistics 588:Word lists 572:Categories 141:References 494:list for 476:list for 458:list for 451:list for 267:0142-6001 214:0889-4906 26:word list 488:Japanese 480:(10,635) 129:See also 73:approach 462:(~8600) 445:Chinese 428:Add-ons 420:(~2800) 408:(~1500) 400:Globish 381:English 81:similar 30:English 28:of 570 24:) is a 498:(8009) 470:Korean 455:(8848) 414:(2000) 402:(1500) 396:(~875) 297:System 265:  212:  123:lemmas 85:occur, 83:, and 77:create 523:This 437:(570) 390:(850) 529:stub 263:ISSN 210:ISSN 107:The 98:list 69:area 16:The 311:doi 255:doi 202:doi 22:AWL 574:: 301:87 299:, 290:43 288:, 261:. 251:35 249:. 245:. 208:. 198:26 196:. 192:. 104:. 79:, 75:, 71:, 560:e 553:t 546:v 535:. 365:e 358:t 351:v 313:: 269:. 257:: 230:. 216:. 204:: 20:(

Index

word list
English
word families
academic texts
English as a second or foreign language
higher education
Averil Coxhead
Victoria University of Wellington
University Word List
General Service List
New Academic Word List
list
Simple English Wiktionary
Academic Vocabulary List
Corpus of Contemporary American English
word families
lemmas
General Service List
Vocabulary myths : applying second language research to classroom teaching
Teaching readers of English : students, texts, and contexts
"A corpus-based lexical study on frequency and distribution of Coxhead's AWL word families in medical research articles (RAs)"
doi
10.1016/j.esp.2007.04.003
ISSN
0889-4906
"New Academic Word List (NAWL)"
"A New Academic Vocabulary List"
doi
10.1093/applin/amt015
ISSN

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