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Averil Coxhead
Hüsem KorkmazMA TEFL
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was developed from a corpus of 5 million words with the needs of ESL/EFL learners in mind,
contains the most widely useful 2,000 word families in English. The
GSL has been criticised for its size (Engels, 1968), age (Richards, 1974), and need for revision (Hwang, 1989).
Despite these criticisms, the GSL covers up to
90% of fiction texts up to 75% of nonfiction texts
up to 76% of the Academic Corpus
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Campion and Elley (1971)
Praninskas (1972)
Lynn (1973) Ghadessy
(1979)
Xue and Nation (1984) University Word List (UWL)
Corpora and identified words that occured across a range of texts
Student annotatitons above words in textbooks
Combination of the four lists mentioned
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The UWL has been widely used by learners, teachers, course designers, and researchers.
However, as an amalgam of the four different studies, it lacked consistent selection principles and had many of the weaknesses of the prior work.
The corpora on which the studies were based were small and did not contain a wide and balanced range of topics.
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there is a need for a new academic word list based on data gathered from a large, well-designed corpus of academic English.
The ideal word list would be divided into smaller, frequency-based sublists to aid in the sequencing of teaching and in materials development.
A word list based on the occurrence of word families in a corpus of texts representing a variety of academic registers can provide information about how words are actually used
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REPRESENTATION
SIZEWORD
SELECTION
ORGANIZATION
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1. Which lexical items occur frequently and uniformly across a wide range of academic material but are not among the first 2,000 words of English as given in the GSL (West, 1953)?
2. Do the lexical items occur with different frequencies in arts, commerce, law, and science texts?
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1. What percentage of the words in the Academic Corpus does the AWL cover?
2. Do the lexical items identified occur frequently in an independent collection of academic texts?
3. How frequently do the words in the AWL occur in nonacademic texts?
4. How does the AWL compare with the UWL (Xue & Nation, 1984)?
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To evaluate the AWL, its coverage of these is discussed and compared with the UWL:
(a) the Academic Corpus along with the GSL (West, 1953)
(b) a second collection of academic texts
(c) a collection of fiction texts
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Selection criteria for words:
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1. Which lexical items occur frequently and uniformly across a wide range of academic material but are not among the first 2,000 words of English as given in the GSL (West, 1953)?
570 word families
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2. Do the lexical items occur with different frequencies in arts, commerce, law, and science texts?
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1. What percentage of the words in the Academic Corpus does the AWL cover?
The AWL accounts for 10.0 of the tokens
in the Academic Corpus
GSL (2000 words) + AWL = 86 % of the Academic Corpus
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2. Do the lexical items identified occur frequently in an independent collection of academic texts?
A second corpus was made up of texts that had met the criteria for inclusion in the Academic Corpus but were not included either because they were collected too late or because the subject area they belonged to was already completer
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3. How frequently do the words in the AWL occur in nonacademic texts?
The Academic Wordlist – Project Gutenberg(50 texts)
• AWL accounts for 1,4 % of the tokens in PG collection (lower than AWL’s 10 % coverage of Academic Corpus)
• Huge difference suggests AWL word families are mostly associated with academic writing
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4. How does the AWL compare with the UWL (Xue & Nation, 1984)?
Though smaller than UWL, AWL gives a better return on learning, as students need to learn only 570 word families instead of 836 for the same coverage of academic texts.
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AWLUWL
435 word families
51 %
401 135
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UWL includes 570 word families that do not occur in the Academic Corpus. So, even if the students learn these words, they might rarely or never meet them in academic texts.
AWL is smaller than UWL in size. However, it has a higher coverage of academic texts
AWL covers a wider range of subject areas
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Set
vocabulary
goals for
EAP
courses
Construct relevant teaching materials
Help students focus on useful vocabulary items
Directly teach
the words in
the AWL
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For detailed information:AWL:
http://www.uefap.com/vocab/select/awl.htm
Project Gutenberg:http://www.gutenberg.net
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Thanks for your participation and attention…
Hüsem Korkmaz