New Academic Word ListMA3C0214-Ainsley

New Academic Word List (NAWL 1.0)

In alphabetical order

With lemmas

With SFI

How many words are in the NAWL?

Academic corpus(288 million words)

A list of 963 words

The components used in building the corpus

Cambridge English Corpus

A single word list with frequencies

Academic journals

Non-fiction

Students’ essays

Academic discourse

249 million words

Oral partBritish Academic Spoken English• BASEMichigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English• MICASE

Textbooks• published textbooks including many of the top

100 best-selling textbooks• 4 same categories as oral part

Final Corpus Procedures: Carroll, Davies, and Richman (1971) and

Carroll (1971) D: an index of dispersion over the 9 word lists U: an adjusted estimation of the occurrence of the

word frequency per million SFI: standard frequency index NGSL, frequency, dispersion, and appropriateness.