The significance of the academic word list among ESL tertiary students in a Malaysian public university

• Main Authors: Lee, Bee Choo, Tan Ai Lin, Debbita Ai Lin, Manjet Kaur Mehar Singh, Malini Ganapathy
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2017
• Online Access: http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12855/1/19561-65552-1-PB.pdf; http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12855/; http://ejournal.ukm.my/3l/issue/view/1059
• Institution: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

The Academic Word List (AWL) was compiled by Coxhead (2000) and consists of 570 word families. Along with 2,000 of the most common English words, knowledge of the words represented in this list is vital for the overall academic performance of students. It is widely acknowledged that the most acute...