The use of academic vocabulary and words collocation in undergraduates' written assignments

• Main Author: Siti Salwani, Saad
• Format: Final Year Project Report
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, UNIMAS 2009
• Subjects: LB Theory and practice of education
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/6970/4/Salwani%28fulltext%29.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/6970/
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

This study aims to determine the use of academic words and their collocation in UNIMAS undergraduates’ academic written texts. Coxhead’s (1998) AWL was used in identifying the academic words. There are three objectives of this study which are 1) determine the percentage of AW used in the...