Useful links
Dictionaries that include the academic word list
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