Understanding the Use of Academic Word List (AWL) in EFL Academic Writing

Abstract

With the help of a learner corpus of academic writing (LCAW) which was collected over a period of three years from the undergraduate preparatory year students in Saudi Arabia, we have attempted to understand the use of AWL words by the EFL undergraduate students for form, meaning and use aspects of word knowledge using three freely available tools: AntConc corpus analysis tools, Tom Cobb’s Compleat Lextotur, and Cambridge English Vocabulary Profile.