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Доброго времени суток всем подписчикам и читателям блога scriptcoding.ru. Сегодня мы рассмотрим, как сделать список в Word документе программным путем, с помощью коллекции ListGalleries объектной модели Word.

Коллекция ListGalleries является отправной точкой, чтобы сделать маркированный или нумерованный список в Word с помощью макросов VBA, или сценариев сервера Windows Script Host. По сути, коллекция хранит объекты ListGallery, которые представляют индивидуальный список, но, ни ListGalleries и ListGallery не содержат средств для формирования списка Word с нужными параметрами. Так, с практической стороны вам понадобится только одно свойство и один метод из коллекции и два свойства и один метод.

Для доступа к коллекции ListGalleries используется одноименное свойство класса Word.Application. Так как данный материал немного запутан, то давайте для начала рассмотрим свойства и метода коллекции и класса, а уже потом я постараюсь показать и объяснить, что и для чего нужно…

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  1. ListGalleries – свойства и методы, маркированный и нумерованный список в Word
  2. ListGallery – свойства и методы, нумерованный и маркированный список в Word
  3. ListTemplates – свойства и методы, как сделать список в Word
  4. ListTemplate – свойства и методы, типы списков в Word

ListGalleries – свойства и методы, маркированный и нумерованный список в Word

создание нумерованного и маркированного списка в word

Count– Количество классов ListGallery в текущей коллекции

Item(index) – Позволяет получить доступ к ListGallery заданного типа.

index – Определяет тип списка в Word, содержит значение константы WdListGalleryType:

  • wdBulletGallery — 1 — маркированный список Word.
  • wdNumberGallery — 2 — нумерованный список Word.
  • wdOutlineNumberGallery — 3 — многоуровневый список.

ListGallery – свойства и методы, нумерованный и маркированный список в Word

создание маркированного и нумерованного списка в Word

ListTemplates— Возвращает ListTemplates, которая представляет все типы списков в Word для указанного списка в коллекции. Только чтение.

Modified(index) – Вернет значение True, если производились изменения в заданном шаблоне списка. Только чтение.

Reset(index) – Позволяет очистить созданный ранее шаблон (index – номер шаблона).

Хорошо, теперь давайте рассмотрим, как сделать список Word, и весь процесс….

Все мы знаем, чтобы сделать список в документе Word, в первую очередь надо выбрать нужные абзацы, после этого мы выбираем типы списков Word. За тип отвечают три вкладки:

  • Маркеры – содержит 7 типов маркеров и позволяет создать собственный список-маркер.
  • Нумерация – также содержит 7 вариантов нумерованного списка в Word и дает возможность создать собственный шаблон.
  • Многоуровневый список – также на выбор дается 7 готовых шаблонов и возможность сформировать собственный.

Аналогичные действия происходят, и тогда, когда надо программно сделать список в Word:

Сначала нам нужно получить доступ к коллекции ListGalleries через одноименное свойство класса Word Application.

Далее нужно получить доступ к ListGallery – мы можем или использовать свойство item (смотрите выше) или задать значение напрямую:

oWord.ListGalleries(1)
oWord.ListGalleries.Item(1)

Обратите внимание, что мы передаем не номер класса, а его тип (всего три варианта).

После того, как мы определились с нужным типом списка в Word и получили доступ к ListGallery, нам нужно обратиться к свойству ListTemplates, которое позволяет получить доступ к одноименной коллекция:

oWord.ListGalleries(1).ListTemplates.Item(1)
oWord.ListGalleries(1).ListTemplates(1)

Хорошо мы получили доступ к коллекции ListTemplates, давайте рассмотрим, для чего она нужна. Как упоминалось выше, для каждого из трех типов списков Word есть 7 заготовленных шаблонов. Фактически, каждый такой шаблон является классом ListTemplate, входящим в состав коллекции. Как и с объектом ListGallery, тут та же ситуация – мы передаем не номер, а тип.

ListTemplates – свойства и методы, как сделать список в Word

типы Word списков

Count– Количество классов ListTemplate. Только чтение.

Add(OutlineNumbered, Name) — Возвращает ListTemplate, представляющий новый шаблон списка. Оба параметра являются дополнительными.

OutlineNumbered – True — список будет многоуровневым, False — список содержит только один уровень вложенности.

Name – имя шаблона.

Item(count) — Возвращает отдельный объект ListTemplate в коллекции.

ListTemplate – свойства и методы, типы списков в Word

как сделать Word список

ListLevels— Возвращает ListLevels, представляющую все списки для указанного ListTemplate.

Name— Возвращает или задает имя указанного класса. Чтение и запись.

OutlineNumbered— Значение true, если указанный ListTemplate является многоуровневым. Чтение и запись.

Convert(level) – Позволяет конвертировать список: многоуровневый в одноуровневый, или наоборот.

level – Дополнительный параметр, который задает уровень вложенности списка Word. Этот аргумент может быть число от 1 до 9. Если этот аргумент опущен, то значение 1 — значение по умолчанию.

Последний этап, который, показывает как сделать список в Word – этап выбора уровня вложенности. По сути, нам надо получить доступ к коллекции ListLevels и объектам ListLevel. Так как данная коллекция и объект содержат довольно много методов и свойств, то я описал их в отдельной статье – «Коллекция Word ListLevels и объект ListLevel«. Но, чтобы не предоставлять вам материал без примеров, мы сделаем два списка в Word, которые сможем многократно использовать. Я сначала приведу вам примеры кода, а уже потом объясню, что и как.

Пример на языке VBScript

' ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
' как сделать список в Word
' нумерованный список в Word
' маркированный список в Word
' ListGallery.vbs
' ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Option Explicit
 
dim oWord, oDoc, oSel, i, oPars, MyText, oRange
dim REnd                    ' конец текста
dim List1, List2            ' два объекта ListTemplate
 
Set oWord = CreateObject("Word.Application")
Set oDoc = oWord.Documents
oDoc.Add()
Set oSel = oWord.Selection
oWord.Visible = True
 
MyText = "типы списков в Word. "
 
For i=0 to 10
    oSel.TypeText MyText & MyText & MyText & MyText & MyText & MyText & MyText
    oSel.TypeParagraph
Next
 
set oRange = oDoc(1).Range()            'Создаем Range
set oPars = oRange.Paragraphs             'Создаем Paragraps
 
' Определяем конечную позицию для текста
REnd = oPars(oPars.Count).Range.End
 
set List1 = oDoc(1).ListTemplates.Add(false)    ' Первый шаблон
set List2 = oDoc(1).ListTemplates.Add(false)    ' Второй шаблон
 
'--------------------------------------------------------------
'     Заполняем шаблоны
'--------------------------------------------------------------
With List1.ListLevels(1)
    .Alignment = 1
    .NumberPosition = 10
    .NumberStyle = 3
    .TextPosition = 20
    .TrailingCharacter = 0
        With .Font
            .Bold =true
            .Size = 20
            .Shadow = true
            .ColorIndex = 6
        End With
End With
 
With List2.ListLevels(1)
    .Alignment = 1
    .NumberPosition = 20
    .NumberStyle = 4
    .TextPosition = 20
    .TrailingCharacter = 0
        With .Font
            .Bold =true
            .Size = 20
            .Shadow = true
            .ColorIndex = 11
        End With
End With
'--------------------------------------------------------------
 
' выбираем диапазон от 2-го до 4-го абзаца
oRange.SetRange oPars(2).Range.Start, oPars(4).Range.End
' Применяем первый шаблон списка
oRange.ListFormat.ApplyListTemplateWithLevel List1, false, 0, 2
 
' выделяем заново весь диапазон
oRange.SetRange 0, REnd
 
' выбираем диапазон от 2-го до 4-го абзаца
oRange.SetRange oPars(7).Range.Start, oPars(9).Range.End
' Применяем второй шаблон списка
oRange.ListFormat.ApplyListTemplateWithLevel List2, false, 0, 2

Пример на языке JScript

// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// как сделать список в Word
// нумерованный список в Word
// маркированный список в Word
// ListGallery.vbs
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
var oWord1, oDoc1, oSel1, i, oPars1, MyText1, oRange1;
var REnd;                    // конец текста
var List1, List2;            // два объекта ListTemplate
 
oWord1 = WScript.CreateObject("Word.Application");
oDoc1 = oWord1.Documents;
oDoc1.Add();
oSel1 = oWord1.Selection;
oWord1.Visible = true;
 
MyText1 = "типы списков в Word. ";
 
for (i=0; i<=10; i++){
    oSel1.TypeText(MyText1 + MyText1 + MyText1 + MyText1 + MyText1 + MyText1 + MyText1);
    oSel1.TypeParagraph();
}
 
oRange1 = oDoc1(1).Range();                //Создаем Range
oPars1 = oRange1.Paragraphs;             //Создаем Paragraps
 
// Определяем конечную позицию для текста
REnd = oPars1(oPars1.Count).Range.End;
 
List1 = oDoc1(1).ListTemplates.Add(false);        // Первый шаблон
List2 = oDoc1(1).ListTemplates.Add(false);        // Второй шаблон
 
//--------------------------------------------------------------
//     Заполняем шаблоны
//--------------------------------------------------------------
with(List1.ListLevels(1)){
    Alignment = 1;
    NumberPosition = 10;
    NumberStyle = 3;
    TextPosition = 20;
    TrailingCharacter = 0;
        with(Font){
            Bold =true;
            Size = 20;
            Shadow = true;
            ColorIndex = 6;
        }
}
 
with(List2.ListLevels(1)){
    Alignment = 1;
    NumberPosition = 20;
    NumberStyle = 4;
    TextPosition = 20;
    TrailingCharacter = 0;
        with(Font){
            Bold =true;
            Size = 20;
            Shadow = true;
            ColorIndex = 11;
        }
}
//--------------------------------------------------------------
 
// выбираем диапазон от 2-го до 4-го абзаца
oRange1.SetRange(oPars1(2).Range.Start, oPars1(4).Range.End);
// Применяем первый шаблон списка
oRange1.ListFormat.ApplyListTemplateWithLevel(List1, false, 0, 2);
 
// выделяем заново весь диапазон
oRange1.SetRange(0, REnd);
 
// выбираем диапазон от 2-го до 4-го абзаца
oRange1.SetRange(oPars1(7).Range.Start, oPars1(9).Range.End);
// Применяем второй шаблон списка
oRange1.ListFormat.ApplyListTemplateWithLevel(List2, false, 0, 2);

Хорошо, теперь давайте разберем программный код. В обоих сценариях объявление практически одинаковые переменные, в примере на JS к именам я добавил единицу. oWord – хранит доступ к приложению Ворд: «Объект Word Application — свойства«, oDoc – позволит создать новый документ: «Коллекция Word Documents«, oSel – позволит выделять нужный текст: «Объект Word Selection — выделить весь текст в ворде, свойства«, oPars – отвечает за обработку абзацев: «Объект Word Paragraph и коллекция Paragraphs — основные параметры абзаца«, MyText – собственно, текст для вставки в документ, oRange – отвечает за выбор содержимого: «Объект Word Range — Выбор текста«.

Видим, что в обоих сценариях мы создали два объекта List1 и List2, которые содержат отформатированный список Word. Далее происходит процесс вызова метода ApplyListTemplateWithLevelобъекта ListFormat для заданного выбора, к нему и будет применяться сделанный в список Word. Видим, что основные параметры определяются через свойства объекта ListLevel.

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Final E, Silent E, Silent Final E, Magic E, Bossy E… A phonics rule so powerful it has at least 5 different names!

Here are four sets of word cards to demonstrate one of Final E’s most important functions: making a vowel say its name.

The cards in these four sets pair up (mainly*) CVC words with their CVC+e counterparts to give you plenty of ready-made examples of how to turn a short vowel sound into a long vowel sound by adding a final silent E, just like magic.

Yes, Final E does other things too, like changing the hard /k/ and /g/ sounds into /s/ or /j/ as in ace and age. With the exception of wag –> wage, these sets of word pairs won’t help you teach that softening effect– we’re sticking to long vowel sounds here.

*There a small number of consonant blends and digraphs in here.

Happy spelling!

Preview of Checklist, Set 1 - A

Preview of Word cards, Set 1 - A

Word cards, Set 1 — A

4 Pages

34 cards.
Seventeen short a words paired with matching long a words created by adding final e.

Words

at, ate, bath, bathe, cap, cape, dam, dame, fat, fate, gab, Gabe, hat, hate, Jan, Jane, Kat, Kate, mad, made, nap, nape, pan, pane, rat, rate, Sam, same, tam, tame, van, vane, wag, wage

Preview of Checklist, Set 2 - I

Preview of Word cards, Set 2 - I

Word cards, Set 2 — I

3 Pages

24 cards.
Twelve short i words paired with the matching long i word created by adding final e.

Words

bit, bite, dim, dime, fin, fine, grip, gripe, hid, hide, kit, kite, pin, pine, mill, mile, quit, quite, rid, ride, slid, slide, Tim, time

Preview of Checklist, Set 3 - O

Preview of Word cards, Set 3 - O

Word cards, Set 3 — O

2 Pages

18 word cards.
Nine short o words paired with long o counterparts created by adding final e.

Words

cod, code, cop, cope, glob, globe, hop, hope, mop, mope, not, note, rod, rode, slop, slope, ton, tone

Preview of Checklist, Set 4 - AR, ER, IR, UR

Preview of Word cards, Set 4 - AR, ER, IR, UR

Word cards, Set 4 — AR, ER, IR, UR

2 Pages

18 word cards.
Nine words with the r-controlled vowel sounds ar, er, ir, ur, each paired up with long vowel words created by adding final e.

Words

bar, bare, car, care, far, fare, star, stare, her, here, fir, fire, sir, sire, cur, cure, purr, pure

Любой, кто хоть
раз в жизни изучал английский язык, сталкивался в роли учителя или ученика с
так называемыми
word lists
(списками слов), расположенных, как правило, в конце каждого раздела, либо на
последних страницах учебника. Списки слов, как правило, объединяют в себе все
те новые слова и выражения, которые являются новыми в учебном курсе и
желательными для запоминания и усвоения и направлены на развитие и пополнение
словарного запаса. Конечно, машинальное заучивание 40 слов из
word list,
может быть крайне скучным и однообразным, нудным и безынтересным, однако у
такого метода расширения вокабуляра есть много поклонников, как среди изучающих
языки, так и среди преподающих. Я подготовил (не без при помощи интернета и
великих мировых лингвистов) несколько
activities,
которые на мой взгляд помогут разнообразить и улучшить запоминание и работу с
«бесконечными» списками слов. Вот они:

1.      Учитель
называет слова в случайном порядке, учащиеся отмечают слово у себя в списке
слов, тем сам распознавая звуковую и письменную форму слов. Это можно делать в
парах.

2.      Учащиеся
быстро повторяют значения слов в списке слов, затем учитель называет перевод
слов из списка, а учащиеся должны отметить английскую версию слова.

3.       Попросите
учащихся выбрать из всего списка слов (в котором, скажем, всего 20 слов) 12
лексических единиц. После этого учитель называет слова из этого списка в
случайном порядке. Либо, если это возможно, учитель может показывать
графические изображения слов. В это время учащиеся должны вычеркивать из своего
списка слов, названные учителем. Первый, кому удастся вычеркнуть все слов,
кричит
Bingo.

4.      Учащиеся
составляют историю, используя слова из целевого списка слов. Возможно
составление истории со всеми словами, а также можно ограничиться 10-15 словами.
Как вариант, можно попробовать, чтобы студенты попробовали составлять
предложения по очереди с каждым словом из списка, связывая их в единый текст
или рассказ.

5.      Учащимся
можно предложить отметить галочкой их любимые (нелюбимые) слова, затем назвать
их друг другу в парах и объяснить почему они их отметили.

6.      Учитель
выбирает слово из списка, называет его и предлагает учащимся найти страницу и
упражнение с этим словом. Предварительно, можно разделить группу на команды и
устроить соревнования направленные на быстрый поиск слов или выражений.

7.      How many of the words 
are things you can touch?
– В группах учащиеся отмечают слова, которые можно
потрогать, прикоснуться. Вместо слова «
touch»
можно использовать любимые другие глаголы:
listen to,
play with,
throw,
eat etc..

8.      How many have you seen today?
– В группах, учащиеся отмечают те, слова (объекты), которые они видели в день
занятия.

9.      Проверь
своего соседа на знание слов. Учащиеся выбирают по 5 слов из списка и диктуют
их друг другу в парах. Затем обменявшись тетрадями они проверяют на ошибки
работы своих партнеров, отмечая количество ошибок и выставляю «условную»
оценку.

10.  И
напоследок
activity, которая мне понравилась
больше всего. По окончании раздела попросите учащихся составить свои списки
слов, выписав наиболее сложные фразы, слов, выражения.  В начале следующего
занятие, попросите их протестировать друг друга в парах на знание слов юнита
(раздела), спрашивая:
How do you say
« стол»
in English?
Whats the English word for
“лампа”?

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  • Hi everyone.

    i want to get all words in a Word Document and List all by ascending order then check the words finally replace wrong word with correct word…

    can everyone help me… solutions…suggestions…?

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  • Use:

    Sub WordFrequency()
             Dim SingleWord As String           ‘Raw word pulled from doc
            Const maxwords = 9000              ‘Maximum unique words allowed
            Dim Words(maxwords) As String      ‘Array to hold unique words
            Dim Freq(maxwords) As Integer      ‘Frequency counter for Unique Words
            Dim WordNum As Integer             ‘Number of unique words
            Dim ByFreq As Boolean              ‘Flag for sorting order
            Dim ttlwds As Long                 ‘Total words in the document
            Dim Excludes As String             ‘Words to be excluded
            Dim Found As Boolean               ‘Temporary flag
            Dim j, k, l, Temp As Integer       ‘Temporary variables
            Dim tword As String                ‘
             ‘ Set up excluded words
    ‘         Excludes = «[the][a][of][is][to][for][this][that][by][be][and][are]»
            Excludes = «»
            Excludes = InputBox$(«Enter words that you wish to exclude, surrounding each word with [ ].», «Excluded Words», «»)
    ‘        Excludes = Excludes & InputBox$(«The following words are excluded: » & Excludes & «. Enter words that you wish to exclude, surrounding each word with [ ].», «Excluded Words», «»)
    ‘ Find out how to sort
    ByFreq = True
    Ans = InputBox$(«Sort by WORD or by FREQ?», «Sort order», «FREQ»)
    If Ans = «» Then End
    If UCase(Ans) = «WORD» Then
       ByFreq = False
    End If
    Selection.HomeKey Unit:=wdStory
    System.Cursor = wdCursorWait
    WordNum = 0
    ttlwds = ActiveDocument.Words.Count
    Totalwords = ActiveDocument.BuiltInDocumentProperties(wdPropertyWords)
            ‘ Control the repeat
            For Each aword In ActiveDocument.Words
                SingleWord = Trim(aword)
                If SingleWord < «A» Or SingleWord > «z» Then SingleWord = «» ‘Out of range?
                If InStr(Excludes, «[» & SingleWord & «]») Then SingleWord = «» ‘On exclude list?
                If Len(SingleWord) > 0 Then
                    Found = False
                    For j = 1 To WordNum
                        If Words(j) = SingleWord Then
                            Freq(j) = Freq(j) + 1
                            Found = True
                            Exit For
                        End If
                    Next j
                    If Not Found Then
                        WordNum = WordNum + 1
                        Words(WordNum) = SingleWord
                        Freq(WordNum) = 1
                    End If
                    If WordNum > maxwords — 1 Then
                        j = MsgBox(«The maximum array size has been exceeded. Increase maxwords.», vbOKOnly)
                        Exit For
                    End If
                End If
                ttlwds = ttlwds — 1
                StatusBar = «Remaining: » & ttlwds & »     Unique: » & WordNum
            Next aword
             ‘ Now sort it into word order
            For j = 1 To WordNum — 1
                k = j
                For l = j + 1 To WordNum
                    If (Not ByFreq And Words(l) < Words(k)) Or (ByFreq And Freq(l) > Freq(k)) Then k = l
                Next l
                If k <> j Then
                    tword = Words(j)
                    Words(j) = Words(k)
                    Words(k) = tword
                    Temp = Freq(j)
                    Freq(j) = Freq(k)
                    Freq(k) = Temp
                End If
                StatusBar = «Sorting: » & WordNum — j
            Next j
             ‘ Now write out the results
            tmpName = ActiveDocument.AttachedTemplate.FullName
            Documents.Add Template:=tmpName, NewTemplate:=False
            Selection.ParagraphFormat.TabStops.ClearAll
            With Selection
                For j = 1 To WordNum
                    .TypeText Text:=Words(j) & vbTab & Trim(Str(Freq(j))) & vbCrLf
                Next j
            End With
            ActiveDocument.Range.Select
            Selection.ConvertToTable
            Selection.Collapse wdCollapseStart
            ActiveDocument.Tables(1).Rows.Add BeforeRow:=Selection.Rows(1)
            ActiveDocument.Tables(1).Cell(1, 1).Range.InsertBefore «Word»
            ActiveDocument.Tables(1).Cell(1, 2).Range.InsertBefore «Occurrences»
            ActiveDocument.Tables(1).Range.ParagraphFormat.Alignment = wdAlignParagraphCenter
            ActiveDocument.Tables(1).Rows.Add
            ActiveDocument.Tables(1).Cell(ActiveDocument.Tables(1).Rows.Count, 1).Range.InsertBefore «Total words in Document»
            ActiveDocument.Tables(1).Cell(ActiveDocument.Tables(1).Rows.Count, 2).Range.InsertBefore Totalwords
            ActiveDocument.Tables(1).Rows.Add
            ActiveDocument.Tables(1).Cell(ActiveDocument.Tables(1).Rows.Count, 1).Range.InsertBefore «Number of different words in Document»
            ActiveDocument.Tables(1).Cell(ActiveDocument.Tables(1).Rows.Count, 2).Range.InsertBefore Trim(Str(WordNum))
            System.Cursor = wdCursorNormal
            j = MsgBox(«There were » & Trim(Str(WordNum)) & » different words «, vbOKOnly, «Finished»)
        Selection.HomeKey wdStory

    End Sub
     — Hope this helps.

    Doug Robbins — Word MVP,
    dkr[atsymbol]mvps[dot]org
    Posted via the Community Bridge

    «Adnan Ebrahimi» wrote in message news:8ddb02da-d954-40f4-b4a5-403fa8fa5a69@communitybridge.codeplex.com…

    Hi everyone.

    i want to get all words in a Word Document and List all by ascending order then check the words finally replace wrong word with correct word…

    can everyone help me… solutions…suggestions…?


    Doug Robbins — Word MVP dkr[atsymbol]mvps[dot]org

    • Marked as answer by
      Bessie Zhao
      Monday, February 7, 2011 10:02 AM

  • Hi Abdan

    If you’re working with the Word object model, going through the .NET/COM, Word OLE interface, and given the speed of processing in that interface, I don’t think you can get anything faster than what you’ve got. It’s the nature of the thing you’re doing.

    Possibly, if the file is in the Office 2007/2010 Open XML file format (docx, for example) you can work with that file as you would any XML file. But we can’t help you here with that. You’ll find more information on Open XML file format at openXMLDeveloper.org


    Cindy Meister, VSTO/Word MVP

    • Marked as answer by
      Bessie Zhao
      Monday, February 7, 2011 10:02 AM

There are many word lists for general and academic English study. This page describes
the most important ones, first giving an
overview of the different types of word list, then presenting a
more detailed summary of individual lists.
The summary contains links to other pages on the site which have more detail of each list and (often) a complete copy of the list itself.

There is a companion page in this section which gives
information on why word lists are important (and tips on how to use them).

[Note: Links to other pages are in blue, links to other parts of this page are in red.]

Types of word list

Word lists can be divided into three types, namely
general word lists and
academic word lists, although as will be explained below, academic lists can be sub-divided into
general academic lists and
field-specific (i.e. subject-specific) academic lists.
An additional way to classify word lists is those which contain only single words (the majority of the lists are this type), and
multi-word lists. A final way to classify lists is written vs. spoken. Most of the lists that exist are
for written English, though many of the multi-word lists include both a spoken and written component.

General word lists (single words)

Interest in word lists began with studies of core or general vocabulary, that is, words having high frequency across a wide range of
texts. The first general word list to have important use in language study was the
General Service List (GSL), created by Michael West in 1953.
This list has been used to design EFL materials and courses, and, despite its age, it is probably still the most widely used list of general vocabulary.
Originally consisting of 2000 words (called headwords) and their corresponding word families, it was revised in 1995 by Bauman and Culligan,
with an increase in the number of headwords from 2000 to 2284.

One criticism of the GSL is its inclusion of too many low frequency words, some of which are a product of its age (e.g. shilling, headdress, cart, servant) while
excluding more recent vocabulary (e.g. computer, television, Internet). A second criticism is that it uses word families. The assumption behind the use of
word families is that once one word is known, other members of the family can be easily recognised; however, this may not always be the case. Examples of
distantly related word family pairs in the GSL are: please/unpleasantly, part/particle and value/invaluable. Additionally, some word
forms are used more frequently than others, and the inclusion of less frequent forms adds an unnecessarily burden to the learning load of students.

general lists

These criticisms have led to the creation of two updated versions of the list, both devised in 2013, both called the New General Service List.
Both lists use inflected forms and variant spellings (called lemmas), rather than extended word families.
The first, abbreviated to
NGSL, was developed by Browne, Culligan and Phillips. It is a list of 2801 words which give over 90% coverage.
It was generated from a corpus of 273 million words, 100 times larger than that used for the GSL.
The second list, abbreviated to
new-GSL, was devised by Brezina and Gablasova from a corpus of over 12 billion words.
It consists of 2494 words and gives around 80% coverage.

General word lists (multi-word)

The above are all single word lists. There are several multi-word lists for general vocabulary, such as the
First 100 Spoken Collocations (First 100) by Shin and Nation (2008), and the Phrasal Expressions List (PHRASE List) by Martinez and Schmitt (2012). However,
since none of these is used as a basis for academic word lists, in contrast to the general lists given above, they are not explained here in detail.

Academic word lists (single words)

Researchers have long been interested in defining and isolating academic vocabulary, and there have been many attempts to devise
lists which are of general use to students of academic English.

The first widely used academic word list was the
University Word List (UWL),
created in 1984 by Xue and Nation. It comprises 836 word families, divided into levels based on frequency.
It excludes words from the GSL, and gives 8.5% coverage of academic texts. It was developed by combining four existing lists.

A major update to the UWL came in 2000, when Averil Coxhead, of the University of Wellington, devised the
Academic Word List (AWL). This list
has been hugely influential and is perhaps the most widely known and used academic word list. Like the UWL, it comprises word families and is
divided into levels based on frequency. It gives similar coverage, around 10% of texts; however, it does so using far fewer word families, 570 in total.
Like the UWL, it excludes words from the GSL. It was devised in a more systematic way, using a corpus of texts from a range of academic disciplines.

Although the AWL is still widely used, it has received criticism in a number of areas. One criticism is that it is based on the
GSL, which is a very old list, dating from 1953. A second criticism is that, like the GSL, it uses word families, with the same problems as mentioned for
the GSL above.

academic lists

In response to these criticisms, other academic word lists have been created. One of these is the
Academic Keyword List (AKL), developed by Paquot in 2010. This
consists of 930 words which appear more frequently in academic texts than non-academic ones, a tendency called keyness,
which leads to the name of the list.

A second list is the
New Academic Word List (NAWL) by
Browne, Culligan and Phillips. This list responds to the criticisms of the AWL by using lemmas rather than word families, and by basing itself on a more
updated general service list, the
NGSL, created by the authors at the same time, in 2013.

A third updated list is the
Academic Vocabulary List (AVL), developed by Gardner and Davies in 2013. This list, which is also lemma-based,
selects academic words by considering their ratio in academic versus non-academic texts, with words needing to occur 1.5 times as often in the
academic texts as in non-academic ones. This is similar to the approach used to devise the AKL (above), and in contrast to lists like the AWL and NAWL which
exclude an existing general service list. In addition, the authors considered the range of words in the academic disciplines used in their corpus,
the dispersion, and discipline measure, which required that words could not occur more than three times the expected frequency in any of
the disciplines. This approach has been influential in the development of other,
field-specific lists, as well as some
technical lists, as explained below.

There are several lists specifically for academic spoken English (as distinct from the spoken components of the multi-word lists, below).
These include the English Spoken Academic Wordlist, devised by Nesi in 2002,
the Academic Spoken Word List (ASWL), devised by Dang et al. in 2017, and
the Vocabulary for Academic Lecture Listening word list (VALL), devised by Thompson in 2015.

Academic word lists (multi-word)

multi-word

Focusing exclusively on single words can lead learners to overlook valuable multi-word constructions which are commonly used in academic English.
For example, while use of the word thing is generally considered to be poor
academic style, it occurs in several phrases used by expert writers, such as
the same thing as and other things being equal.

Several multi-word lists have been developed for academic English. One is the
Academic Formulas List (AFL), devised by Simpson-Vlach and Ellis in 2009. This list
gives the most common formulaic sequences in academic English, i.e. recurring word sequences three to five words long.
There are three separate lists: one for formulas that are common in both academic spoken and written English (the ‘core’ AFL),
one for spoken English, and one for written English.

Another multi-word list is the
Academic Collocation List (ACL), developed by Ackermann and Chen in 2013. The ACL
contains 2469 of the most frequent and useful collocations which occur in written academic English.

A third list is the
Discourse Connectors List (DCL), devised by Rezvani Kalajahi, Neufeld and Abdullah in 2017. This list
classifies and describes 632 discourse connectors, ranking them by frequency in three different registers (academic, non-academic and spoken).

More recently, there is the
Academic idioms list, developed by Miller in 2019. This gives 170 idioms which are common in spoken academic
English, and 38 which are frequently used in written academic English.

Field-specific academic word lists (single words)

Academic word lists such as the AWL are designed to be used by students of all disciplines. Researchers have found, however, that the AWL and other lists
provide varied coverage in different subject areas. For example, the AWL provides 12.0% coverage of the Commerce sub-corpus used to derive the list,
but only 9.1% for the Science sub-corpus (with only 6.2% for Biology).
Additionally, words in the AWL (and similar lists) occur with different frequencies in different disciplines.
For example, words such as legal, policy, income, finance and legislate,
which all fall in the first (most frequent) sublist of the AWL, may be common in Business or Finance,
but are very infrequent in disciplines such as Chemistry.
Words also have different collocations and meanings across different subject areas. Examples are base, which has a special meaning in Chemistry,
and bug, which has a different meaning in Computer Science than in general English.

Researchers have therefore become increasingly interested in field-specific (i.e. subject-specific) academic lists, in disciplines ranging
from science to business to medicine. These are generally not
technical word lists, since they are intended to comprise academic (sub-technical) vocabulary.
However, not all of them set out to exclude technical words (some actually set out to include them), and even for those that do,
the line between academic and technical words is often blurred.

Broadly speaking, there are three approaches used by researchers when devising field-specific academic lists.

The first of these is to use the GSL and AWL as a starting point, and to devise a third list which supplements the other two. These lists
exclude GSL and AWL words, and, since they are based on word family lists, also comprise word families.
These lists usually replace the ‘A’ of ‘AWL’ with a subject specific letter.
Examples are the
SWL (Science Word List), the
BWL#1 (Business Word List #1), the
Pharmacology Word List and the
CSWL (Computer Science Word List).

field1

The second approach is to assume that learners are already familiar with general vocabulary and to devise a second list which replaces
other academic lists such as the AWL or NAWL for specific subject areas. As such, these lists exclude the GSL (or NGSL), but do not
exclude any other lists such as the AWL.
These lists usually add the subject letter before ‘AWL’ to derive their name.
Examples are the
MAWL (Medical Academic Word List) and the
NAWL (Nursing Academic Word List), both of which exclude the GSL and are word family lists (like the GSL), and the
EAWL (Economics Academic Word List), which excludes the NGSL and is a lemma-based list (like the NGSL).

The third approach is to devise a single, completely independent list, which includes words based on ratio, dispersion, and other measures, in a similar
way the AVL. These lists, which are usually lemma-based, tend to use ‘AVL’ in their name, preceded by an abbreviation for the subject. Examples are the
MAVL (Medical Academic Vocabulary List) and the
CSAVL (Computer Science Academic Vocabulary List). The
Chemistry Academic Word List (CAWL), although it broadly uses
the same approach, uses word families, and also predates the creation of the AVL, and does not follow the same naming pattern.

There are two further lists which deserve mention here. Both have been developed using the same principles as the lists above; however, they
are intended for school-age rather than university students.

The first is the
Middle School Vocabulary Lists (MSVL). These are a series of five lists developed in 2015 by Greene and
Coxhead, along similar lines to Coxhead’s earlier AWL, i.e. by excluding the GSL and working with word families. However, this list is
intended not for students at or preparing for university, but middle school students, and covers technical rather than purely academic vocabulary.
The lists cover the following subjects: English, Health, Mathematics, Science, and Social Science/History.

Another is the
Secondary Schools Vocabulary Lists (SVL). Developed in 2018 by Green and Lambert, the SVL are a series of lists of
discipline-specific words for secondary school education, covering eight core subjects: Biology, Chemistry, Economics, English, Geology, History,
Mathematics, and Physics. The lists were devised using methods similar to those used to create the
AVL and the
MAVL, which are lemma-based lists which consider measures such as range and dispersion along with word frequency.
The lists also include word family versions, as well as collocation lists. The SVL are designed to help students in secondary schools improve their
disciplinary literacy.

There are at least two field-specific academic lists of spoken English, both devised by Dang in 2018. They are the Hard Science Spoken Word
List (HSWL), and the Soft Science Spoken Word List (SSWL).

Technical word lists (multi-word)

field2

There have been some attempts to create discipline-specific multi-word lists, using principles employed in the creation of academic lists.
One is the Computer Science Multi-Word List (CSMWL), created by Minshall at the same time as the
Computer Science Word List (CSWL). However, it comprises only 23 items.

Another example is the
Secondary Phrase Lists (SPL), developed in 2018 by Green and Lambert, who also developed the SVL (above).
This is a series of lists, for the same eight subjects as covered by the SVL, presenting noun-noun, adjective-noun, noun-verb, verb-noun and verb-adverb
collocations.

A third, more recent example is the
Nursing Collocation List (NCL), developed in 2020 by Mandić and
Dankić. It comprises 488 collocations which occur frequently in nursing journal articles.

Summary

The following image, and table below, provide an overview of the major word lists. Spoken word lists are only included in the table
(in italics). All word lists (except spoken ones) are explained in more detail later. Note: there is a higher resolution copy of the following image in the
infographics section.

overview

Single word Multi-word
General

• GSL (General Service List) 1953

• NGSL (New General Service List) 2013

• New-GSL (New General Service List) 2013

These exist, but none are used as a basis for academic lists.

Academic

• UWL (University Word List) 1984

• AWL (Academic Word List) 2000

• AKL (Academic Keyword List) 2010

• NAWL (New Academic Word List) 2013

• AVL (Academic Vocabulary List) 2013

• English Spoken Academic Wordlist 2002

• ASWL (Academic Spoken Word List) 2017

• VALL (Vocabulary for Academic Lecture Listening word list) 2015

• AFL (Academic Formulas List) 2009

• ACL (Academic Collocation List) 2013

• DCL (Discourse Connectors List) 2017

• Academic idioms list 2019

Field-specific/ technical

• SWL (Science Word List) 2007

• BWL#1 (Business Word List #1) 2007

• PWL (Pharmacology Word List) 2007

• MAWL (Medical Academic Word List) 2008

• AgroCorpus List 2009

• BEL (Basic Engineering List) 2009

• BWL#2 (Business Word List #2) 2011

• CSWL (Computer Science Academic Word List) 2013

• CAWL (Chemistry Academic Word List) 2013

• MAVL (Medical Academic Vocabulary List) 2015

• NAWL (Nursing Academic Word List) 2015

• EAWL (Environmental Academic Word List) 2015

• EAWL (Economics Academic Word List) 2019

• CSAVL (Computer Science Academic Vocabulary List) 2021


• MSVL (Middle School Vocabulary Lists) 2015

• SVL (Secondary School Vocabulary Lists) 2018


• HSWL (Hard Science Spoken Word List) 2018

• SSWL (Soft Science Spoken Word List) 2018

• CSMWL (Computer Science Multi-Word List) 2013

• SPL (Secondary Phrase Lists) 2018

• NCL (Nursing Collocation List) 2020

References

Granger, S., and Larsson, T. (2021), ‘Is core vocabulary a friend or foe of academic writing? Singleword vs multi-word uses of THING’, Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 52 (2021) 100999.

Hyland, K. and Tse, P. (2007). ‘Is There an “Academic Vocabulary”?’, TESOL QUARTERLY, Vol. 41, No. 2, June 2007.

Radmila Palinkašević, M.A. (2017), ‘Specialized Word Lists — Survey of the Literature — Research Perspective’, Research in Pedagogy, Vol. 7, Issue 2 (2017), pp. 221-238.

Therova, D. (2020), ‘Review of Academic Word Lists’, The Electronic Journal for English as a Second Language, Volume 24, Number 1.

Detailed summary of individual lists

Below is more detail about the lists above. The lists are sorted into the following categories:

  • General (core) vocabulary single word lists (3 lists)
  • Academic single word lists: general purpose (5 lists)
  • Academic single word lists: field-specific (14 lists)
  • Technical single word lists (2 lists)
  • Academic multi-word lists (4 lists)
  • Technical multi-word lists (3 lists)

General (core) vocabulary single word lists

The following gives a more detailed summary of the general word lists mentioned on this page. Blue links
are links to other pages (with even more detail, and, often, a copy of the full word list).

Word list About
General Service List (GSL) Author: West (1953)

Size: 2284 word families

Originally a list of the 2000 most frequent word families in English, covering around 80% of various types of texts. Further divided into the 1K
(first 1000 words) and 2K (second 1000). Used as the basis for many graded readers and other ESL/EFL materials. The list was revised in 1995 by
Bauman and Culligan, and their revision, which is the version most commonly used, contains 2284 words.

Examples: the, be, of, and, a, to, in, he, have, it
New General Service List (NGSL) Author: Browne, Culligan and Phillips (2013)

Size: 2801 words

The New General Service List (NGSL), an update of the GSL, is a list of 2801 words which comprise the most important high-frequency words
in English, giving the highest possible coverage with the fewest possible words. Not to be confused with the
new-GSL (below),
also developed in 2013, the NGSL gives over 90% coverage of the corpus used. The NGSL was generated from a corpus of 273 million words,
100 times larger than that used for the GSL. Presents only inflected forms, not word families. Used as the basis for other lists, e.g.
NAWL. Has yet to have the same influence as the GSL.

Examples: the, be, and, of, to, a, in, have, it, you
New-General Service List (new-GSL) Author: Brezina and Gablasova (2013)

Size: 2494 words

The new-General Service List (new-GSL), an update of the GSL, is a list of 2494 words drawn from four different corpora with a
total size of 12 billion words. Not to be confused with the
NGSL (above), also developed in 2013, the new-GSL gives around 80%
coverage of the corpora used, similar to the GSL, though with fewer words overall, 2494 compared to approximately 4100 for the GSL.
The 2494 words comprise a core list of 2122 words, which had a similar rank in all four corpora, plus 378 words which were common in the
two more recent corpora. Like the NGSL, it uses lemmas i.e. inflected forms, not word families. Does not (yet) appear to have been used as
the basis for other lists, and is yet to have the same influence as the GSL.

Examples: the, be, of, and, a, in, to, have, that, to

Academic single word lists: general purpose

The following are the general academic word lists mentioned earlier.

Word list About
University Word List (UWL) Author: Xue and Nation (1984)

Size: 836 word families

One of the first widely used academic word lists, the UWL contains 836 word families divided into levels based on frequency.
It excludes words from the GSL, and gives coverage of 8.5% of academic texts.
Now largely replaced by the AWL.

Examples: alternative, analyze, approach, arbitrary, assess, assign, assume, compensate, complex, comply
Academic Word List (AWL) Author: Coxhead (2000)

Size: 570 word families

Perhaps the most widely known and used academic word list, the AWL is a list of 570 word families that are not included in the GSL but which appear
frequently in academic texts, across a range of disciplines. Divided into 10 sublists based on frequency. It was designed to be an improvement on the
UWL, and covers around 10% of words in academic texts: a similar amount to the UWL, but
using far fewer word families.

Examples: analyse, approach, area, assess, assume, authority, available, benefit, concept, consist
Academic Keyword List (AKL) Author: Paquot (2010)

Size: 930 words

The Academic Keyword List (AKL) consists of 930 words which appear more frequently in academic texts than non-academic ones.
This tendency is called keyness, which leads to the name of the list, since it identifies keywords in academic (vs. non-academic)
texts (the AVL, below, uses a similar principle to select words). As such,
the AKL does not exclude words from the
GSL. 49.6% of words in the AKL appear in the GSL, 38.7% in the AWL,
while 11.7% appear in neither list.

Example words: ability, absence, account, achievement, act, accept, account (for), absolute, above, according to
New Academic Word List (NAWL) Author: Browne, Culligan and Phillips (2013)

Size: 963 words

The New Academic Word List (NAWL) is a list of words that frequently appear in academic texts, but which are not contained in the
New General Service List (NGSL) (by the same authors).
The NGSL and NAWL in combination give 92% coverage of words (86% for the NGSL and 6% for the NAWL). The NAWL differs from the
AWL in that it is more up-to-date, using the NGSL rather than the much older
GSL as a basis. Additionally, it uses only inflected forms or variant
spellings of words, rather than whole word families, meaning that although it has more headwords than the AWL (963 compared to 570),
it has fewer word forms overall (2604 compared to 3112).

Example words: repertoire, obtain, distribution, parameter, aspect, dynamic, impact, domain, publish, denote.
Academic Vocabulary List (AVL) Author: Gardner and Davies (2013)

Size: 3015 words

The AVL is a list of 3015 academic words derived from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). The list excludes general
high-frequency words as well as subject-specific (technical) words, though not by directly excluding any existing list. Key features
of the list are ratio (words needed to occur 1.5 times as often in academic texts as in non-academic ones), range (words needed to
occur frequently in at least seven of nine academic disciplines), dispersion (words needed to be evenly dispersed among the disciplines)
and discipline measure (words could not occur more than three times the expected frequency in any of the disciplines). Like the
NAWL and in contrast to the
AWL, the AVL is based on words and inflected forms, not word families.

Example words: study, group, system, social, provide, however, research, level, result, include.

Academic single word lists: field-specific

The following are the field-specific lists mentioned earlier.

Word list About
Science Word List (SWL) Author: Coxhead and Hirsh (2007)

Size: 318 word families

The Science Word List (SWL) provides a list of 318 word families which do not occur in the
GSL or
AWL but which occur with reasonable frequency and range in written science texts.
The authors found that the GSL and AWL in combination give only 80% coverage of science texts, compared to 86.7% for Art, 88.8% for Commerce and
88.5% for Law. The 318 word families in the SWL make up for this shortfall, and provide an extra coverage of 3.79% of the science corpus used to
derive the list. In comparison, the SWL gives only 0.61% coverage of an Arts corpus, 0.54% for Commerce and 0.34% for Law, demonstrating that it
is a true science list. The SWL is divided into sublists based on frequency, in a similar way to the AWL. It contains 6 sublists, with the first
5 each containing 60 word families, and the last containing 18.

Example words: cell, species, acid, muscle, protein, molecule, nutrient, dense, laboratory, ion.
Business Word List #1 (BWL#1) Author: Konstantakis (2007)

Size: 560 word families

This is the first of two lists called Business Word List (BWL); the
second is considered later.
To compile the list, the author used a corpus of 33 popular Business English course books published between 1986 and 1996.
The list consists of 560 word families, comprising 480 word families selected according to range (needed to occur in at least five of the text books),
supplemented by a further 80 word families selected for frequency (needed to appear at least 10 times). The list excludes
GSL and
AWL words, and therefore provides a third, more specialised and business-oriented list for
students. The BWL provided 2.79% coverage of the texts. A separate list of common abbreviations was compiled, which added a further 0.30% coverage.
These two lists, together with the GSL and AWL, provided 93.47% coverage, although the author noted that, if proper names and nationalities were included
(e.g. London, Mexican), the coverage reached 95.65%, which is above the 95% minimum comprehension threshold. The list is presented in alphabetical order,
without frequencies.

Example words: above-mentioned, accessories, acid, adverse, aerospace, after-sales, agenda, aggressive, aircraft, airline.
Pharmacology Word List (PWL) Author: Fraser (2007)

Size: 601 word families

The PWL is intended to provide a list of words which are common in the field of pharmacology, but which are not contained in the
GSL or AWL. The PWL gives around 13% coverage of pharmacology journal articles, and 15% coverage of pharmacology textbooks.

Example words: abbreviation, abnormality, abolish, absorb, abuse, accumbens, acetonitrile, acetate, acetylcholine, acid.
Medical Academic Word List (MAWL) Author: Wang, Liang, and Ge (2008)

Size: 623 word families

The Medical Academic Word List (MAWL) was developed from a study of a 1.09 million-word corpus of medical research articles from online resources.
It contains 623 word families, and has a coverage of 12.24% of words in the corpus. The MAWL was developed in a similar way to the
AWL (Academic Word List), by first eliminating words from the
GSL (General Service List). In addition, members of the word family needed to occur in at
least half of the 32 subject areas of the corpus, and occur at least 30 times in the corpus. It provides an alternative to the AWL for medical students.

Example words: cell, data, muscular, significant, clinic, analyze, respond, factor, method, protein.
AgroCorpus List Author: Martínez, Beck, and Panza (2009)

Size: 92 word families

The AgroCorpus List is a subset of the AWL, and consists of the word families that were found to be most frequent in
an 826,416-word corpus of agriculture research articles.

Example words: environmental, accumulation, region, variation, chemical.
Basic Engineering List (BEL) Author: Ward (2009)

Size: 299 words

The Basic Engineering List (BEL), developed from a corpus of 250,000 words from 25 engineering textbooks,
is intended to serve as a foundation for students in reading English language engineering textbooks.
The list is purposely short and non-technical in nature, and focuses on word types rather than lemmas or families in order to
encourage a focus on individual words.

Examples words: system, calculate, value, flow, process, column, factors.
Business Word List #2 (BWL#2) Author: Hsu (2011)

Size: 426 word families

This is the second of two lists called Business Word List (BWL); the
first is considered above.
This BWL gives 426 word families which occur frequently in business texts, but which are not general words. This list
used a different approach to other specialist lists, by excluding the first 3000 word families from the BNC (British National Corpus),
rather than excluding other word lists. The author used a corpus which consisted of business research articles across 20 business subject
areas. The word families were chosen by range and frequency in the corpus and accounted for 5.66% of words. The words in the BWL are listed
according to which 1000 word section of the BNC they appear in (BNC 4th 1000, BNC 5th 1000, etc.), then by frequency in the business corpus.
Range (number of articles they occur in) is also given. As such, this BWL is more detailed than the first one.

Example words: asset, audit, statistic, review, transact, network, database, acquire, interact, construct
CSWL (Computer Science Word List) Author: Minshall (2013)

Size: 433 word families

This Computer Science Word List (CSWL) was designed for use by non-native English speakers studying computer science in UK universities.
It was developed from a corpus of 3.66 million words from journal articles and conference proceedings covering 10 sub-disciplines of
computer science as defined by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). In combination with the GSL and AWL, the CSWL
gave 95.11% coverage of the corpus.

Example words: accelerate, activate, acyclic, adversary, affine, afore, algebra, algorithm, align, alphabet.
CAWL (Chemistry Academic Word List) Author: Valipouri and Nassaji (2013)

Size: 1400 word families

The Chemistry Academic Word List (CAWL) was developed for EFL graduate Chemistry students.
It comprises word families which occur frequently in Chemistry research articles.
It includes both general and academic words, since many high frequency words have different meanings,
frequencies and collocations in specialist contexts. Of the 1400 word families in the CAWL, 683 are from the
GSL, 327 are from the
AWL, while the remaining 390 occur in neither list. In total, the CAWL gives
81.18% coverage of the CRAC (Chemistry Research Article Corpus) used to derive the list.

Example words: use, show, react, results, solve, spectrum, can, form, temperature, high.
Medical Academic Vocabulary List (MAVL) Author: Lei and Liu (2015)

Size: 819 words

The Medical Academic Vocabulary List (MAVL) was developed based on a study of a 2.7 million-word corpus of medical
academic English and a 3.5 million-word corpus of medical English textbooks. The coverage of the MAVL in the two corpuses was 19.44% and
20.18% respectively. The MAVL can be contrasted with the earlier
Medical Academic Word List (MAWL), developed in 2008, in four ways.
First, unlike the MAWL, which used only medical academic English texts, the MAVL used both medical academic English texts alongside
medical English textbooks to develop the list. Second, unlike the MAWL, the MAVL did not exclude high frequency (general) words.
Third, the MAVL is lemma-based not word family based. Fourth, it provides greater coverage, with the MAVL covering 19.44% of words in medical
academic English texts, compared to 10.52% for the MAWL, and 20.18% of words in medical English textbooks, in contrast to 12.97% for
the MAWL.

Example words: abdominal, ability, abnormal, abnormality, absence, absent, absolute, absorption, accord, accumulate.
NAWL (Nursing Academic Word List) Author: 2015

Size: 676 word families

The Nursing Academic Word List (NAWL) contains the most frequent nursing words in a one million word corpus (called the NRAC) consisting
of 252 English online nursing research articles. It is intended for graduate nursing students who need to read and publish nursing articles
in English. The NAWL covers 13.64% of the NRAC. Not to be confused with the
New Academic Word List (above), also abbreviated NAWL.
Environmental Academic Word List (EAWL) Author: Liu and Han (2015)

Size: 458 word families

Not to be confused with the
Economics Academic Word List, also abbreviated, EAWL (below),
the Environmental Academic Word List (EAWL) is intended for environmental science learners. The list gives 15.43% coverage of the
862,242 word corpus used to derive the list, compared to 12.82% for the AWL.
Economics Academic Word List (EAWL) Author: O’Flynn (2020)

Size: 887 words

The Economics Academic Word List (EAWL) is a list of words which frequently appear in economics texts,
but which are not contained in the
New General Service List (NGSL). The 887 words of the EAWL are divided
into 9 sublists based on frequency. The EAWL, which, like the NGSL, is lemma-based, makes up around 5.5% of the words in university
economics texts in English, based on a corpus study of texts ranging from economics journal articles to economics dissertations.
Not to be confused with the
Environmental Academic Word List, also abbreviated, EAWL (above).

Example words: administrative, aggregate, agriculture, allocation, aspect, audit, authority, best, better, calculation.
Computer Science Academic Vocabulary List (CSAVL) Author: Roesler (2021)

Size: 1606 words

The Computer Science Academic Vocabulary List (CSAVL) comprises two lists for use by Computer Science undergraduate students in the US.
The first list gives 904 words, while the second supplementary list, CSAVL-S, gives more technical words. Words were chosen by frequency,
range, dispersion and other criteria from a corpus of Computer Science textbooks and journal articles, and together give
19.90% coverage of a second corpus used to evaluate the list. This list, which is a stand-alone list, contrasts with the
CSWL, which is intended as a third, supplementary list to the GSL and AWL.

Example words: system, data, algorithm, such, base, node, model, case, program, information.

Technical single word lists

There are two important technical lists, both for school age students, which use the similar methodology to derive them as the other lists
on this page.

Word list About
Middle School Vocabulary Lists (MSVL) Author: Greene and Coxhead (2015)

Size: 600-800 word families per subject

The Middle School Vocabulary Lists (MSVL) are a series of lists developed in 2015 by Greene and
Coxhead, covering English, Health, Mathematics, Science, and Social Science/History.
The lists were developed from a corpus of 109 textbooks for grades 6-8 (11-14 years old). Like the
AWL, the MSVL excludes words from the
GSL and uses a word family approach. Text coverage of the lists is between 5.83% (Social Studies/History) and 10.17% (Science).

Example words [Health]: drug, physical, alcohol, stress, goal
Example words [Mathematics]: equate, graph, area, fraction, chapter.
Secondary School Vocabulary Lists (SVL) Author: Green and Lambert (2018)

Size: Varies, from 253 words (Mathematics) to 880 words (Biology)

The Secondary School Vocabulary Lists (SVL) is a series of lists of discipline-specific words for secondary school
education, covering eight core subjects: Biology, Chemistry, Economics, English, Geology, History, Mathematics, and Physics. The list was
devised using methods similar to those used to create the
AVL and the
MAVL. The SVL does not present a single list. Rather, it comprises three different types of word list for eight different subjects,
and therefore presents 24 lists in total. The three different list types are: lemma lists (sorted by frequency);
word family lists (also sorted by frequency, of all words in the family); and collocation lists (the most common 10 word associations for each).

Example words [Biology]: cell, blood, plant, enzyme, molecule.
Example words [Economics]: price, cost, demand, rate, firm.

Academic multi-word lists: general purpose

The following are the general academic multi-word lists mentioned earlier.

Word list About
Academic Formulas List (AFL) Author: Simpson-Vlach and Ellis (2009)

Size: 607 formulas

The Academic Formulas List (AFL) contains the most common formulaic sequences in academic English, i.e. recurring word sequences three to
five words long. There are three separate lists: one for formulas that are common in both academic spoken and academic written language
(the core AFL, 207 entries), one for formulas which are used frequently in academic spoken English (200 entries), and one for
those which are used frequently in academic written English (also 200 entries).

Examples [core]: in terms of, at the same time, from the point of view, in order to
Examples [spoken]: be able to, blah blah blah, this is the, you know what I mean
Examples [written]: on the other hand, due to the fact that, it should be noted
Academic Collocation List (ACL) Author: Ackermann and Chen (2013)

Size: 2469 collocations

The Academic Collocation List (ACL) contains 2469 of the most frequent and useful collocations which occur in written academic English.
It was developed using the Pearson International Corpus of Academic English (PICAE), with advice from English teaching experts to ensure
the collocations chosen would be useful to students of English. The ACL gives around 1.4% coverage of words in academic English, in contrast
to only 0.1% coverage for a general corpus.

Example collocations: cognitive ability, abstract concept, sexual abuse, (in) academic circles,
accept responsibility, allow access (to), brief account, great accuracy, achieve (a) goal,
acquire knowledge
.
Discourse Connectors List (DCL) Author: Rezvani Kalajahi, Neufeld and Abdullah (2017)

Size: 632 discourse connectors

The Discourse Connector List (DCL) classifies and describes 632 discourse connectors, ranking them by frequency in three
different registers (academic, non-academic and spoken registers) in two different corpora, namely the BNC (British National Corpus)
and COCA (Corpus of Contemporary American English).

Examples: and, or, as, if, when, also, however, after, even, because.
Academic Idioms list Author: Miller (2019)

Size: 170 idioms (spoken), 38 idioms (written)

The academic idioms list is derived from the British Academic Spoken English (BASE) corpus for spoken texts and the Oxford Corpus of
Academic English (OCAE) corpus for written texts. Only idioms with a frequency of more than 1.2 per million words in the BASE corpus
were included. Together the list accounts for approximately 0.1% of words in academic English.

Examples [written]: on the other hand, in (the) light of, on the one hand, in the hands of, bear in mind
Examples [spoken]: the balance of power, at the end of the day, the bottom line, take on board, by and large

Academic multi-word lists: field-specific

There appear to be no field-specific, academic multi-word lists at present.

Technical multi-word lists

The following are technical multi-word lists.

Word list About
Computer Science Multi-Word List (CSMWL) Author: Minshall (2013)

Size: 23 collocations

The Computer Science Multi-Word List (CSMWL) was developed by Minshall at the same time as the
CSWL. It comprises only 23 items (listed in full below).

Complete list of CSMWL collocations: control flow graph, data flow, data mining, data set,
data structure, data transfer, lower bound, flash memory, execution time, garbage collection,
machine learning, operating system, polynomial time, response time, scratch pad, search engine,
social network, software development, software engineer, steady state, upper bound, user interface,
virtual machine.
Secondary Phrase Lists (SPL) Author: Green and Lambert (2018)

Size: Size varies according to list

The Secondary Phrase Lists (SPL) was developed by Green and Lambert at the same time as the
SVL. It comprises collocations for the same eight subjects as covered
by the SVL.

Example collocations [Biology]: carbon dioxide, amino acids, water potential, blood cells
Example collocations [Economics]: demand curve, interest rate, supply curve, price level
Nursing Collocation List (NCL) Author: Mandić and Dankić (2020)

Size: 488 collocations

The Nursing Collocation List (NCL) is a list of 488 collocations which occur frequently in nursing journal articles. It was developed
using the nursing scientific article corpus (NSAC), which consisted of 1.1 million words drawn from 262 nursing articles, from ten
prominent nursing journals, all published in 2017 or 2018. The list includes only noun-adjective collocations (254, or 52.1% of the
total) and noun-noun collocations (234, or 47.9%), since these are the most common in nursing articles.

Example collocations: alcohol abuse, open access, action research, acute care, medication adherence,
chemotherapy administration, hospital admission, adverse effect, age group, significant amount.

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