Vocabulary

Web Sites with Useful Word Lists

Must See Sites

The Academic Word List

The Academic Word List was developed at the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at Victoria University of Wellington. The list contains 570 word families. 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.

ESL : Vocabulary : Lists

Useful links from the Internet TESL Journal.

The Internet Picture Dictionary

Online multilingual picture dictionary designed especially for ESOL students.

Also Helpful

Paul Nation

You can download a copy of Range - the programme which can process up to 32 texts and tell you which words come from the first and second thousand words, the AWL, or not from any list.

Dolch Word List

The Dolch words are the 220 most frequently found words in books that children read.

WordCount

WordCount is an interactive presentation of the 86,800 most frequently used English words. Each word is scaled to reflect its frequency relative to the words that precede and follow it, giving a visual barometer of relevance. WordCount data currently comes from the British National CorpusŪ.