4B – The Academic Word List (570 word families)

Sources of the "Academic Word List"

The following is quoted from the 2011 article. I added the blue links for your convenience.

A wide range of paper-based and online materials and activities using the AWL are now available.

Lists with All Word Family Members

For about $10, you can buy Sheldon Smith’s collection of e-books for all 10 sub-lists. This is what I showed in the video above, with the complete list of all word family members and pronunciation symbols.

Textbooks

Textbooks using the AWL include …

Contemporary Topics: Academic Listening and Note-taking Skills The Intro, Book 1, Book 2 (Longman)
Huntley’s Essential Academic Vocabulary: Mastering the Complete Academic Word List (Houghton Mifflin)
English for Academic Success Series: Book 1 and Book 2 (Houghton Mifflin)
Schmitt and Schmitt’s (2005) well-principled Focus on Vocabulary: Mastering the Academic Word List (Longman)
Inside Reading (Oxford University Press)
Read This! (Cambridge University Press)
McCarthy’s Academic Vocabulary in Use (Cambridge University Press)

Many of these publications now have accompanying websites.

Online Exercises & Practice

For vocabulary exercises using the list, see:

Gillett’s Using English for academic purposes
Luton’s English Vocabulary Exercises
You might also search Quizlet.com and see what is publicly available when you search, “Academic Word List”

Dictionaries

One major area of development is dictionaries that highlight AWL words. Examples include…

Longman Exams Dictionary
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Neungyule–Longman English–Korean Dictionary
Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary
Oxford Student’s Dictionary of English