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1 Academic Word List AnIntroductiont o t he Academic Word List Averil Coxhead, Massey University, New Zealand to recognise other family members such as maximised when you encounter them in your reading. These words are closely related and the meaning is likely to be the same or similar. When you are looking for words in this dictionary, think about other word family members too. What is the Academic Word List? Finally, there are some academic words that The Academic Word List (AWL) is a list of 570 word families that are commonly found in academic texts. This list was selected by examining a large corpus (or collection) of do not have a word family. These words occur on their own and do not have any inflections. Examples include nonetheless, so-called and behalf. written academic texts and selecting the Why is the AWL important? words that occurred: 1 In texts from all four academic faculty The AWL is intended as a reference for students sections: Arts, Commerce, Law and Science. who are studying or preparing to study at a 2 Over 100 times in the corpus overall. tertiary level in English. As a university lecturer, I was aware of the difficulties that students had in 3 At least 10 times in each academic mastering the vocabulary necessary for written faculty section. assignments. The AWL does not include ‘content vocabulary for particular subjects which students 4 Outside the 2000 most frequent words on Michael West ’Gesneral Service List (GSL). The GSL includes everyday words obviously need to learn as well. The AWL focuses instead on the non-subject-specific vocabulary that students of any discipline will need to master such as I, house and do. in order to produce coherently-structured written These principles ensured that only words that assignments. occurred reasonably frequently in a variety of study areas were selected. The AWL covers up to 10% of the vocabulary covered in written academic texts. This means The AWL targets vocabulary that occurs most that, on