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buzzwords. What’s the Academic Word List (AWL) and what can it do for our students?. What is the AWL?. Developed by Averil Coxhead from Victoria University’s School of Linguistics and Applied Studies in 2000 Contains 570 words/word families most used across the Academic Corpus.

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  1. buzzwords What’s the Academic Word List (AWL) and what can it do for our students?

  2. What is the AWL? • Developed by Averil Coxhead from Victoria University’s School of Linguistics and Applied Studies in 2000 • Contains 570 words/word families most used across the Academic Corpus Coxhead, Averil (2000) A New Academic Word List. TESOL Quarterly, 34 (2): 213-238.

  3. The Academic Corpus? • The Academic Corpus is a group of 414 texts with a total of 3.5 million running words from academic sources such as • Journals • Textbook chapters • Workbooks • Lab manuals • It is sorted into 4 sections and 28 subsections Coxhead, Averil (2000) A New Academic Word List. TESOL Quarterly, 34 (2): 213-238.

  4. The Academic Corpus Coxhead, Averil (2000) A New Academic Word List. TESOL Quarterly, 34 (2): 213-238.

  5. Back to the AWL • AWL word families have RANGE • Occur in all sections and over half of the subsections of the Academic Corpus • AWL word families have FREQUENCY • Occur over 100 times in the Academic Corpus • AWL word families have UNIFORMITY OF FREQUENCY • Occur minimum of 10 times in each section of the Academic Corpus Coxhead, Averil (2000) A New Academic Word List. TESOL Quarterly, 34 (2): 213-238.

  6. More on the AWL • Does not include the 2,000 most commonly used words in English (a, the, and, etc), proper nouns, or Latin forms • Further divided into 10 sublists ranging from most used (Sublist 1) to least used (Sublist 10) as relative to the AWL as a whole Coxhead, Averil (2000) A New Academic Word List. TESOL Quarterly, 34 (2): 213-238.

  7. Why is the AWL important? • The AWL is a list of the vocabulary words that will be most important, based on research, to our students in respect to future academic and vocational success. • These words must be taught AND put in context for our students to learn and master this vocabulary

  8. How can we use the AWL? • Encourage students to stop and define words they aren’t familiar with within academic texts • Use the word in context to your subject as well as others • What does method look like in science vs. math vs. business? • Offer incentives for word study outside of class • Quizlet, graphic organizers, vocabulary.com, word ladders

  9. Get creative!

  10. Manipulate Words • Can you really have mastery of words or subjects without being able to manipulate them in new ways? • Could you determine the puzzle on the left was “foot in the door” without knowing that 12’’= 1 foot? • Or… “walk on water” without the knowledge that H2O=water?

  11. Get students talking about AWL • Take time to incorporate AWL and domain specific words into your lesson • Word Read-Around can take only 5 minutes, but involves the whole class • Each student receives a slip of paper with one statement and one question that includes a vocabulary word • One student has the card labeled as the first and the game continues until all cards are used • EX: “I have the first card. Who has the word that means to devour or use up?” Next student: “I have consume. Who has the word that means to obtain money for?” Next student: “I have finance”…and so on

  12. Other vocabulary Activities • Fact or Fiction • Each student is assigned one vocabulary word. They write 3 statements related to the word with one of them being false. The group must identify the false statement and fix the error to make it true • Make a Word Wall displaying all learned words • Vocabulary Bee • In Text • Find the target word in multiple texts (vocabulary.com) and compare uses

  13. Other AWL resources • About the AWL • Victoria University Website • http://www.victoria.ac.nz/lals/resources/academicwordlist • Dr. AverilCoxhead • http://www.victoria.ac.nz/lals/about/staff/averil-coxhead • AWL Activities • AWL practice • http://www.englishvocabularyexercises.com/AWL/index.htm • AWL highlighter • http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/alzsh3/acvocab/awlhighlighter.htm • AWL gapmaker • http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/alzsh3/acvocab/awlgapmaker.htm

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