A Corpus-based Comparison between the Academic Word List and the Academic Vocabulary List

This study was a corpus-based comparison between two lists of academic words: Coxhead’s (2000) Academic Word List (AWL) and Gardner and Davies’ (2014) Academic Vocabulary List (AVL). Comparisons were made between different types of lexical coverage provided by the AWL and the AVL in the self-created University Academic Corpus (72-million tokens). The findings indicated that the performance of the AWL and the AVL was different when different evaluation criteria were adopted. Implications, limitations, and suggestions are listed for future research.

Name thesis:degree_name

MA

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Education

Grantor dc:publisher

The University of Western Ontario

Year dc:date.issued

2016

Author dc:creator

• Qi, Huamin

Advisors dc:contributor.advisor

• Supervisor: Farahnaz Faez
• Stuart Webb

• the AWL
• the AVL
• corpus
• lexical coverage

Language dc:language.iso

en_ca

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14721/33700

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:uwo.scholaris.ca:20.500.14721/33700