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Gardner, Dee; Davies, Mark – Applied Linguistics, 2014
This article presents our new Academic Vocabulary List (AVL), derived from a 120-million-word academic subcorpus of the 425-million-word Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA; Davies 2012). We first explore reasons why a new academic core list is warranted, and why such a list is still needed in English language education. We also provide…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Word Lists, English Instruction, Word Frequency