Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Academic Word Lists

In the course of advising several ESL learners who want to increase their mastery of words commonly used in texts and discussions of intellectual material, I ran across several valuable web sites.  The AWL originated in New Zealand, these are British and Canadian sites, and they include American spellings also.

Download a list of the AWL word families


Copy and paste text to see highlighted AWL terms

Practice exercises and pronunciation audio

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