WORKSHOP RESOURCES
WORKSHOP RESOURCES
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Developing Reading Skills for Intermediate/Advanced Learners
Cultivating Writing Skills at the Intermediate Level
The Academic Word List (AWL) contains 570 word families which frequently appear in academic texts, but which are not contained in the General Service List (GSL). Research has shown that the AWL covers 10% of words in academic texts; if you are familiar with words in the GSL (which covers around 80% of words in texts), you would have knowledge of approximately 90% of words in academic texts.
The New General Service List (NGSL) is a list of 2801 words which comprise the most important high-frequency words in English, giving the highest possible coverage with the fewest possible words. Although there are over 600,000 words in English, the 2801 words of the NGSL give over 90% coverage.