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Averil Coxhead
Researcher at Victoria University of Wellington
Publications - 77
Citations - 3931
Averil Coxhead is an academic researcher from Victoria University of Wellington. The author has contributed to research in topics: Vocabulary & English for academic purposes. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 67 publications receiving 3429 citations. Previous affiliations of Averil Coxhead include University of Oslo & Massey University.
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A New Academic Word List
TL;DR: The AWL contains 570 word families that account for approximately 10.0% of the total words (tokens) in academic texts but only 1.4% of total words in a fiction collection of the same size.
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Preparing writing teachers to teach the vocabulary and grammar of academic prose
Averil Coxhead,Pat Byrd +1 more
TL;DR: Recent scholarship on the nature of the vocabulary and grammar that characterize academic writing is reviewed and practical ways that teacher educators can bring the study of academic language into the preparation of writing teachers to teach the vocabularyand grammar of academic prose are suggested.
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The Academic Word List 10 Years On: Research and Teaching Implications
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Research Perspectives on English for Academic Purposes: The specialised vocabulary of English for academic purposes
Averil Coxhead,Paul Nation +1 more
TL;DR: It is useful for teaching and learning to divide the vocabulary of English into four groups: high frequency words, academic vocabulary, technical vocabulary, low frequency words and medium frequency words.
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Gauging the effects of exercises on verb–noun collocations
TL;DR: This article reported four small-scale trials (total n = 135) in which the learning gains obtained from verb-noun matching exercises are compared with the learning gain obtained from presenting the target collocations to the learners as intact wholes.