精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上IELTS, TOEFL 考试必备之 AWL IntroductionThe Academic Word List was developed by as her MA thesis at the at , New Zealand. The list contains 570 word families which were selected according to principles outlined below. The list does not include words that are in the most frequent 2000 words of English. The AWL was primarily made so that it could be used by teachers as part of a programme preparing learners for tertiary level study or used by students working alone to lea