ACADEMIC VOCABULARY UNIVERSITY STUDENTS MUST KNOW
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Learning English vocabulary is essential in academic studies. If you don't know the words, you can't communicate. Vocabulary is therefore essential for all university language learners. This article aims to answer the question of what vocabulary university students must know by reviewing previous research on "Academic English vocabulary". The first part of the article traces the meaning of academic words and the background of research in applied linguistics that studied the list of general basic words in English called General service list of English words or GSL by West (1953). It was an attempt to develop effective English language teaching around the world. The second part describes the development and evaluation of an academic word list (AWL), which was compiled from a corpus of 3.5 million running words of written academic text by examining the frequency of words outside the first 2,000 most frequently occurring words of English, as described by West (1953). The AWL contains 570 word families that account for approximately 10.0% of the total words (tokens) in academic texts. The third part shows the results of the analysis of the academic English words with the highest frequency in the academic language archive which was divided into 10 academic word sublists. The final part shows the high frequency lexical bundles important in academic texts with examples so that scholars can remember and apply immediately. Knowledge of these English academic vocabularies will help university students with academic goals to know which words are most worth studying. They can be able to read and write articles as quickly and effectively as a native speaker in a limited amount of time.
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