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Philip Kerr summarizes a 2016 study by Philip Durrant examining how relevant the Academic Vocabulary List is to university student writing. Kerr summarizes, “It is clear … that the AVL is a useful guide but needs to be treated with some caution. A learning / teaching focus on Durrant’s 427 items would appear to make more sense than a more ambitious attempt to deal with the entirety of the AVL (or, for that matter, the AWL). However, more research is needed before this can be settled.”
 
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