Degree
Master of Arts
Program
Education
Supervisor
Supervisor: Dr. Farahnaz Faez
2nd Supervisor
Dr. Stuart Webb
Co-Supervisor
Abstract
This study was a corpus-based comparison between two lists of academic words: Coxhead’s (2000) Academic Word List (AWL) and Gardner and Davies’ (2014) Academic Vocabulary List (AVL). Comparisons were made between different types of lexical coverage provided by the AWL and the AVL in the self-created University Academic Corpus (72-million tokens). The findings indicated that the performance of the AWL and the AVL was different when different evaluation criteria were adopted. Implications, limitations, and suggestions are listed for future research.
Recommended Citation
Qi, Huamin, "A Corpus-based Comparison between the Academic Word List and the Academic Vocabulary List" (2016). Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository. 3721.
https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/3721