The specialised vocabulary of English for academic purposes

The high frequency words. These consist of around 2,000 word families. They are wide range high frequency words that are an essential basis for all language use. They include most of the 176 function words of English. Typically they provide coverage of around 80% of the running words in academic text. The classic collection of these is Michael West's (1953) General Service List of English Words (GSL).

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