Academic Vocabulary

For those of you working with college-bound students, here is a link to Averil Coxhead's Academic Word List.

http://language.massey.ac.nz/staff/awl/

The list contains 570 word families but does not include words that are in the most frequent 2000 words of English. The AWL was primarily made so that it could be used by teachers as part of a programme preparing learners for tertiary level study or used by students working alone to learn the words most needed to study at tertiary institutions.