Vocabulary: Academic & Formal Vocabulary (C1) - Lesson 5: Mastering the Academic Word List (AWL) & Academic Collocations

Lesson 5: Mastering the Academic Word List (AWL) A Strategic Key to Academic English Imagine having a "master key" that could unlock about 10% of every academic text you read. Such a key exists: it's called the Academic Word List (AWL) . This is a list of 570 word families that appear with very high frequency across all academic disciplines. Mastering the AWL and its collocations is one of the most efficient strategies for boosting your academic proficiency . Key Vocabulary Academic Word List (AWL) (noun phrase) | បញ្ជីពាក្យសិក្សា A list of 570 word families that are frequently found in a wide range of academic texts. Corpus (noun) | ឃ្លាំងទិន្នន័យភាសា A large collection of written or spoken texts that is used for language research. Proficiency (noun) | ភាពស្ទាត់ជំនាញ A high degree of skill; expertise. 1. What is the AWL? Developed by researcher Averil Coxhead, the AWL was created by analyzing a large corpus of academic texts. It contains the words that are common in subjects from law a…