Useful links

• Order a copy of the AWL
• Coxhead, A. (2006) Essentials of Teaching Academic Vocabulary
  • Essentials of Teaching Academic English series. Boston: Heinle Cengage

Dictionaries that include the academic word list

• Longman Exams Dictionary
• Oxford Student's Dictionary of English

Textbooks based on the academic word list

• Coxhead, A. & Nation, P. (2018). Reading for the academic world, 1, 2, 3. Sache, Texas: Seed Learning
• Read This! (2010). Alice Savage & Daphne Mackey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Essential Academic Vocabulary (2006). Helen Huntley. Cengage Learning,
• Inside Reading: The Academic Word List in Context. 2nd ed.
  • Cheryl Boyd Zimmerman, Arline Burgmeier, Lawrence J. Zwier, Bruce Rubin & Kent Richmond, New York: Oxford University Press, 2012
• Focus on Vocabulary: Mastering the Academic Word List. 2nd ed.
  • Diane Schmitt, Norbert Schmitt. White Plains, NY: Pearson Education 2011
• English for Academic Success Series
  • Houghton Mifflin, English for Academic Success Series 2006
• Contemporary Topics. 3rd ed.
  • Pearson Education
• Academic Word Power
  • Cengage Learning

Websites with exercises on the academic word list

• Vocabulary in EAP
  • Andy Gillet, University of Hertfordshire, UK
• Vocabulary Exercises for the Academic Word List
  • Gerry Luton, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
• The AWL Highlighter and Gapmaker

Other useful links

• Laurence Anthony's AntConc
• The Compleat Lexical Tutor
• The GSL List
  • The General Service List (West, 1953) page, by John Bauman