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Collocations and Recurrent Phrases in the Academic Word List

Collocations and Recurrent Phrases in the Academic Word List. Pat Byrd TESOL March 23, 2007. Plan for the next few minutes…. 1. Overview of the Academic Word List (AWL) 2. Current project and its implications for writing teachers and materials used in teaching writing

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Collocations and Recurrent Phrases in the Academic Word List

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  1. Collocations and Recurrent Phrases in the Academic Word List Pat ByrdTESOL March 23, 2007

  2. Plan for the next few minutes… • 1. Overview of the Academic Word List (AWL) • 2. Current project and its implications for writing teachers and materials used in teaching writing • 3. Examples of Data from the project: • a. required (from sublist 1) • b. persistent (from sublist 10)

  3. 1. Overview of the Academic Word List (AWL) • AWL words are lexical items that 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 West’s General Service List. • Range • Frequency • The AWL corpus includes • 28 subject areas in 7 general areas from 4 disciplines--arts, commerce, law, and science • about 3.5 million words • Words are organized into word families • Not lemmas • All related forms in a single grouping: • assume, assumed, assumes, assuming, assumption, assumptions • 570 word families in this word list • Word families are divided into 10 sublists based on frequency (with the most frequent words in sublist 1 and the least frequent in sublist 10)

  4. 2. Current project • What we’re doing • Why we’re doing this work

  5. Examples of data from the AWL • required • Wordlist 1: for a high frequency word • persistent • Wordlist 10: for a low frequency word

  6. Resources • Resource list is available for download from my website at http://www2.gsu.edu/~eslhpb/PatByrd • Or, you can email me at patbyrd@comcast.net

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