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The Academic Word List is one of several vocabulary lists that does not connect directly
with a single particular piece of literature. It includes ten units of sets of
words most frequently found in school text books of all types, hence applying
to non-fiction.
"The Academic Word List, compiled by Coxhead (2000), consists of 570 word
families that are not in the most frequent 2,000 words of English but
which occur reasonably frequently over a very wide range of academic texts.
These 570 words are grouped into ten sublists that reflect word frequency
and range. A word like analyze falls into Sublist 1, which contains
the most frequent words, while the word adjacent falls into Sublist
10 which includes the least frequent (amongst this list of high incidence words)...
knowledge of the most high-incidence academic words in English can
significantly boost a student's comprehension level of school-based
reading material."
Coxhead, Averil. (2000). A new academic word list. TESOL Quarterly, 34, 213-238.
Averil Coxhead's website: http://www.vuw.ac.nz/lals/research/awl/index.html.
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