Academic Word List

Academic Word List

SKILLS / Writing /  Grammar / Vocabulary Academic Vocabulary The Academic Word List (AWL), developed by Averil Coxhead in 2000 at Victoria University of Wellington, comprises 570 word families that occur frequently across a wide range of academic texts. This webpage...
Text Exploitation

Text Exploitation

How students can exploit a text to support their learning What are reading strategies? Reading strategies are explicit approaches and techniques to improve comprehension of a written text. These reading strategies include skimming, scanning, surveying, highlighting,...