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What is academic vocabulary?
Academic
vocabulary is usually defined as being the words that are used frequently
in many different academic areas.
What is the Academic Word List (AWL)?
The AWL is a list of words created by
Averil Coxhead. She found the most frequent words in a variety of
academic readings, and then she created the AWL. It has 570 words,
and is divided into 10 sublists: the first sublist has the most frequent
academic words, while the last sublist has the least frequent academic
words. You can find out more about the AWL by going to Averil's
website.
Who should try to learn and use the
AWL?
The AWL is especially useful for students
who want to study at a university in an English-speaking environment.
However, anyone who is learning English can benefit from being able
to use this vocabulary. Before you can really benefit from academic
vocabulary, however, you need to know about 2000 very common words.
You can take
a test to find out your vocabulary level.
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