Publisher: Garnet Education
Upper Intermediate
Suitable for classroom use or self-study.
The best-selling English for Academic Study (EAS) series provides students with a clear and efficient path to academic competency and success. Students are no longer simply working through college-level materials; they are consciously developing skills and strategies that can transfer out of the EAP classroom into their future studies, becoming capable and autonomous learners.
English for Academic Study: Vocabulary: provides systemic practice of words from the first 5 sublists of the AWL and encourages learner independence by developing understanding of word families, collocations and more.
Key Features:
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- Academic vocabulary from approximately 500 high-frequency word families taken from both the General Service List and the Academic Word List
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- Two-part structure, with vocabulary topic analysis followed by focused practice
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- Systematic practice in the use of dictionaries encourages learner independence
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- Study tip and language note boxes give essential self-study tips for revising
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- For self-study or class use
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- Diagnostic test for self-assessment and improvement
Contents
i. Introduction
1. Multi-meaning words
2. Word classes – nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs
3. Word families and word parts
4. Collocations
5. Word grammar
6. AWL – Sublist 1
7. AWL – Sublist 2
8. AWL – Sublist 3
9. AWL – Sublist 4
10. AWL – Sublist 5
g. Glossary
a. Appendices:
Appendix 1: Academic Word List
Appendix 2: Achievement test
Appendix 3: Answer key
Reviews
“The EAS Vocabulary Study Book is an excellent self-study book. It introduces the most commonly used words from both general and academic word family lists, which I find very useful. It also provides extensive practice. The units are based on topics such as multi-meaning words, word classes, collocations, and word grammar. Each unit has weblinks offering additional information and activities, and the appendix also provides an extensive list of word families.”
– Margaret Oertig for ETAS Journal, Vol. 30, No 3, Summer 2013
“Vocabulary would work well in class, and is a valuable contribution to the pre-sessional classroom.”
– Clare Anderson for the ESP SIG Journal, Issue 41, April 2013
