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The Academic Word List (AWL) is a word list of 570 English word families [1] which appear with great frequency in a broad range of academic texts.The target readership is English as a second or foreign language students intending to enter English-medium higher education, and teachers of such students.
Averil Jean Coxhead (born 1966) [1] [2] is a New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at Victoria University of Wellington, specialising in applied linguistics.She is known for creating the Academic Word List, which is a list of 570 English word families that appear with great frequency in a broad range of academic texts.
Academic Word List, a word frequency list from a broad range of academic texts; Alliance for Workers' Liberty, a Trotskyist group in Britain; Arizona Winter League, a former instructional baseball league; The Awl, a current events and culture website in New York City; Statement List (German: Anweisungsliste (AWL)), an instruction list language ...
Their justification in criticism about Coxhead's corpus design in particular, and the notion of an 'academic word list' as being unattainable, has a good degree of validity. Steve.neufeld ( talk ) 15:11, 17 January 2008 (UTC) [ reply ]
The General Service List (GSL) is a list of roughly 2,000 words published by Michael West in 1953. [1] The words were selected to represent the most frequent words of English and were taken from a corpus of written English. The target audience was English language learners and ESL teachers. To maximize the utility of the list, some frequent ...
Lists of words and semantic concepts, used by linguists, language teachers and students, and lexicographers. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
It includes the F.F.1 list with 1,500 high-frequency words, completed by a later F.F.2 list with 1,700 mid-frequency words, and the most used syntax rules. [11] It is claimed that 70 grammatical words constitute 50% of the communicatives sentence, [12] [13] while 3,680 words make about 95~98% of coverage. [14] A list of 3,000 frequent words is ...
A list of 100 words that occur most frequently in written English is given below, based on an analysis of the Oxford English Corpus (a collection of texts in the English language, comprising over 2 billion words). [1]