Have you use the AWL yet?

Academic Word List is one of the best educational web site which will help students to enlarge their vocabulary skill. The AWL created by Coxhead .We can easily access by going the flowing site :

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/alzsh3/acvocab/index.htm

This website is very useful for practicing and exercising the academic vocabulary. They have provided some tools which will be very helpful both for the teachers and students.  vocabulary There are ten tabs left side of the site, as AWL highlighter, AWL gap maker, teaching, learning, word list and there are ten sub list and concordance list .

This website is featured like AWL highlighter, AWL gap maker and using concordance line.

*AWL highlighter can be used to highlight all the academic words from any particular text.

*AWL gap maker enables us to create a fill in the gaps exercise using a particular text. Gap maker has another option that the exercise can be made in both ways, like a list of words can be given with the exercise or it can be otherwise.

The website is very user friendly .We don’t need to sign in or fill any other rules. For the user there is a clear instruction is given about how to utilize this website. These tools are very useful to make teaching materials as it is focuses on academic word list.

                      

Everything in this world have some positive and negative sides alike this website has also some limitations .There is no visual attraction as there is no pictures. Another drawback is that there is only an example of concordance list is given the site. We will not find any instruction how to use this concordance list and then any corpus is not given in this website.

This site is very helpful for both teachers and students .Teacher can make material by using this sites by using gap maker as well as students can practices and extend their knowledge also .So hurry check this site if you don’t do yet……Best of Luck  :-) 

Thank you.