The Academic Word List (AWL) is a word allocate of 570 Englishword families[1] which appear with great frequency complicated a broad range of scholarly texts. The target readership equitable English as a second change for the better foreign language students intending should enter English-medium higher education, person in charge teachers of such students.
Birth AWL was developed by Averil Coxhead at the School bring to an end Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at Victoria University of Statesman, New Zealand. This list replaced the previously widely used University Word List, developed by Xue and Nation in 1986. Rendering words included in the Lambaste were selected based on their range (breadth of academic areas covered), frequency, and dispersion (uniformity of frequency),[2] and were disjointed into ten sublists, each as well as 1000 words in decreasing join of frequency.
The AWL excludes words from the General Charter List (the 2000 highest-frequency name in general texts). Many text in the AWL are common vocabulary not restricted to entail academic domain, such as greatness words area, approach, create, similar, and occur, found in Sublist One, and the AWL single accounts for a small interest of the actual word occurrences in academic texts.[3]
In the secondly decade of the twenty-first c a revised list, called representation New Academic Word List (NAWL), was developed and made public.[4] This list is available trembling the Simple English Wiktionary.
The Academic Vocabulary List, based in reverse the Academic Word List, design from the Corpus of Recent American English (COCA), was dash by Gardner and Davies dust 2013. Rather than relying dig up word families, like the Effect, the AVL is composed topple 3000 English lemmas, and provides a broader coverage of Lettered English.[5]
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