Academic Wordlist

In this section you can do practice tests for all groups of the academic word list. The Academic Word List (AWL) was developed by Averil Coxhead at the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. The list contains 570 word families which were selected because they appear with great frequency in a broad range of academic texts. The list does not include words that are in the most frequent 2000 words of English (the General Service List), thus making it specific to academic contexts. Group 1 Practice test Group 2 Practice test Group 3 Practice test Group 4 Practice test Group 5 Practice test Group 6 Practice test Group 7 Practice test Group 8 Practice test Group 9 Practice test Group 10 Practice test

Academic English Writing | academicenglish.byethost11.com/ AWL Exercises Homepage What is the Academic Word List? The AWL is a list of words which appear with high frequency in English-language academic texts. The list was compiled by Averil Coxhead at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. The list contains 570 word families and is divided into 10 sublists. Sublist 1 consists of the 60 most common words in the AWL. To find these words, an analysis was done of academic journals, textbooks, course workbooks, lab manuals, and course notes. 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.). You will need to know this academic vocabulary if you want to study in an English-speaking college or university. All the vocabulary exercises on this website were created using Gerry's Vocabulary Teacher.