Exploring polysemy in the Academic Vocabulary List: A lexicographic approach

2021 ◽  
pp. 101038
Author(s):  
Sophia Skoufaki ◽  
Bojana Petrić
Keyword(s):  
Academic Vocabulary ◽  
Vocabulary List

scholarly journals A New Academic Vocabulary List

2013 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 305-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Gardner ◽  
M. Davies
Keyword(s):  
Academic Vocabulary ◽  
Vocabulary List

Developing and Validating an Academic Vocabulary List in Russian: A Computational Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 104 (3) ◽  
pp. 618-646
Author(s):  
EKATERINA TALALAKINA ◽  
DENIS STUKAL ◽  
MIKHAIL KAMROTOV
Keyword(s):  
Computational Approach ◽  
Academic Vocabulary ◽  
Vocabulary List

scholarly journals A COMPARISON OF THE ACADEMIC WORD LIST AND THE ACADEMIC VOCABULARY LIST: SHOULD THE AVL REPLACE THE AWL?

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 167
Author(s):  
Razieh Gholaminejad ◽  
Mohammad Reza Anani Sarab
Keyword(s):  
Word List ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Academic Vocabulary ◽  
Frequency Method ◽  
Minimum Frequency ◽  
Comprehensive List ◽  
Corpus Size ◽  
History Of ◽  
Made In ◽  
Vocabulary List

In this commentary, we begin with the discussion on a brief history of academic wordlists. Adopting a comparative perspective, then, the merits and demerits of the Academic Word List (AWL) (Coxhead, 2000) and its competing counterpart the Academic Vocabulary List (AVL) (Gardner & Davies, 2014) are presented. We also explore whether the AWL can still be considered as “the best list” (Nation, 2001, p. 12) for improving academic words, or whether its counterpart is reasonably “the most current, accurate, and comprehensive list” (Gardner & Davies, 2014, p. 325). The comparison was made in terms of twelve aspects: corpus size, types of corpus texts, sources of corpus texts, text balance, disciplines included, counting unit, wordlist items, method for excluding highfrequency words, minimum frequency, method for excluding technical words, sequence of list items and lexical coverage. The comparison reveals that the AVL is far from complete and cannot replace the AWL. The results of the comparison can have implications for practitioners and course developers.

scholarly journals The Academic Vocabulary List (AVL) coverage in the Brazilian academic written English corpus

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larissa Goulart
Keyword(s):  
Word List ◽  
English For Academic Purposes ◽  
Academic Vocabulary ◽  
Word Lists ◽  
Brazilian Students ◽  
Vocabulary List

This paper is divided in two parts, in the first one we address the different definitions of academic vocabulary, the role of academic vocabulary in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) teaching, and present some of the academic word lists compiled up to the present day. The second part of this paper is dedicated to one of the applications of these word lists: to determine the vocabulary profile of a corpus. Hence, the investigation conducted relies on the Academic Vocabulary List (AVL) to determine the use of academic vocabulary in a corpus of Brazilian students. It also addresses the issue of the different coverage provided by the AVL and the Academic Word List (AWL). The results indicate that the AVL is more representative of academic vocabulary in the corpus used as a reference.

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