Academic vocabulary and collocations used in language teaching and applied linguistics textbooks

Somewhere between technical and general vocabulary are located those words which are used in formal academic contexts with a high frequency across scientific disciplines ( Farrell 1990 ). These are referred to as academic vocabulary. Recent findings do not support the adequacy of a single academic wordlist which can equally meet the needs of students of all disciplines ( Durrant 2016 ), and this has inspired researchers to develop wordlists...