New Academic Word List
MA3C0214-Ainsley
New Academic Word List (NAWL 1.0)
In alphabetical order
With SFI
With lemmas
How many words are in the NAWL?
Academic corpus
(288 million words)
A list of 963
words
The components used in building the corpus
Cambridge English Corpus
Nonfiction
Students’
essays
Academic
discourse
Academic
journals
249 million words
A single word list with
frequencies
Oral part
British Academic Spoken English
• BASE
Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English
• MICASE
Textbooks
• published textbooks including many of the top
100 best-selling textbooks
• 4 same categories as oral part
Final Corpus
 Procedures: Carroll, Davies, and Richman (1971)
and Carroll (1971)
 D: an index of dispersion over the 9 word lists
 U: an adjusted estimation of the occurrence of
the word frequency per million
 SFI: standard frequency index
 NGSL, frequency, dispersion, and
appropriateness.