![]() ![]() ![]() In fact, because these words are so common, they are even useful to those who do not plan to go on to post-secondary study in English. You will need to know this academic vocabulary if you want to study in an English-speaking college or university. Nor does it contain words which are of general use and very high frequency. The AWL does not, however, include technical words which are specific to a given field. This means that the AWL is useful to all second-language learners who wish to study in an English-speaking institution no matter what their field of study. The words selected for the AWL are words which occur frequently in a range of academic subjects, including the Arts (including history, psychology, sociology, etc.), Commerce (including economics, marketing, management, etc.), Law and the Sciences (including biology, computer science, mathematics, etc.). The list was compiled following an analysis of over 3,500,000 words of text. To find these words, an analysis was done of academic journals, textbooks, course workbooks, lab manuals, and course notes. Each sublist contains 60 word families, except for sublist 10, which contains 30. Sublist 2 contains the next most frequently used words and so on. Sublist 1 consists of the 60 most common words in the AWL. The list contains 570 word families and is divided into 10 sublists. ![]() The list was compiled by Averil Coxhead at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. The AWL is a list of words which appear with high frequency in English-language academic texts. ![]()
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