AWL总计包括570个词汇及其衍生词,一共10个列表,前9个列表各60个词,第10个列表30个词。这个词表是作者Averil Coxhead当年的MA论文《School ofLinguistics and Applied LanguageStudies》(其中的School是“学派”的意思)中的一部分内容,现今这个词表已经与BASIC和GSL(1953)一样著名。为了选出这些词汇,Coxhead先是采集了一个涉及28个学科、大约350万词的语料库(见下表):
Arts | Commerce | Law | Science |
Education | Accounting | Constitutional Law | Biology |
History | Economics | Criminal Law | Chemistry |
Linguistics | Finance | Family Law and Medico-Legal | Computer Science |
Philosophy | Industrial Relations | Internatinal Law | Geography |
Politics | Management | Pure Commercial Law | Geology |
Psychology | Marketing | Quasi-Commercial Law | Mathematics |
Sociology | Public Policy | Rights and Remedies | Physics |
而后又编制了选词标准和排词标准:
AWL Headwords
Sublist Families of the Academic Word List
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