The full AWL is divided into ten sublists. The first nine lists contain 60 word families each and the last list contains 30 word families. In this book, we introduce word families from the first five sublists. Unit 6 introduces words from AWL Sublist 1; Unit 7 introduces word families from AWL Sublist 2, and so on. In total, you will practise words from 300 word families from the AWL. For information on the development and evaluation of the AWL, see Coxhead, A.(2000). A New Academic Word List, TESOL Quarterly, 34 (2), 213–238.
You can find the full list on the Internet by entering ‘Academic Word List’ in any search engine.
■ Technical words: In addition to learning words from the General Service List and the Academic Word List, you will also need to learn many technical words connected with your own subject. These words represent concepts that are perhaps only found in your subject area.
There are a number of ways of learning these words. You can:
• read articles or books connected with your subject • listen to lectures or watch programmes connected with your subject • find an Internet glossary on your subject
In all of the above cases, you should make a record of commonly occurring words and study how they are used. Remember, however, that with some technical words you may not fully understand what they mean until you have been on your academic course for some time.
How to use this book
In order to help you use this book effectively, we have included some recommendations on how to work through the units.
It is recommended that you work through the units in this book in the order they appear. It is also recommended that you do the exercises in the order they appear within the units and also that you do all the exercises. Many words are recycled throughout the exercises; in other words, they appear a number of times in different exercises. Doing all the exercises will give you more practice in recognizing and using the words. ■ At the end of each unit, there is an activity which encourages you to review all the exercises you have done in the unit, and to write down new phrases or new words that you have learnt. Reviewing vocabulary, i.e., looking again and again at words you have met, is an essential part of learning vocabulary. It is not enough to see words once in order to remember them; if you only meet a word once, you will not have all the information you need to use it fully and correctly.
■ It is also useful to record whole phrases or sentences with new words in them rather than just the words by themselves, as this will help you to be able to use the words when speaking or writing.
■ For some exercises the instructions tell you to use a dictionary, but even in cases where there is no explicit instruction to do so, a good monolingual dictionary will be of great help to you. It is important to stress that a good monolingual dictionary will not only be useful in doing the exercises in this book, but will also help you during your continuing language studies.
■ You should check your answers when you finish each exercise. If you have made a mistake, notice the correct answer and go back and look at the exercise again. If you still cannot understand why this is the correct answer, ask one of your teachers.
■ It is important that you review the words you learn in a regular and systematic way, for example, by reviewing words at the end of each day, then again at the end of each week and again after two weeks.
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