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Peer reviewedCoxhead, Averil – TESOL Quarterly, 2000
Describes the development and evaluation of a new academic word list that was completed from a corpus of 3.5 million running words of written academic text by examining the range and frequency of words outside the first 2,000 most frequently occurring words in English. Explains the problems with existing word lists intended to guide materials…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, English, English for Academic Purposes, Instructional Materials
