25 Collocations for Academic English

This new video outlines the 25 most common collocations in academic English (#1 play a role), plus a few bonus collocations and examples of each one in use. The collocations are taken from the ACL (see next). As always, there is a worksheet for use with the video.

Watch: 25 Academic Collocations [YouTube/ YouKu]
 

The ACL (Academic Collocation List)
by frequency

If you are familiar with the ACL, you will know it does not contain frequency information... until now! I've spent some time using the BAWE and BNC corpora to add frequency values for each collocation in the list, so that students can focus on studying the most frequent ones first.

Go to: ACL sorted by frequency

Using concordancers

A concordancer is a computer program which is used to search through a corpus (plural form corpora), in other words a collection of texts. I wrote a review of popular online concordancers (Lextutor, BNC, MICUSP, SKELL), inspired by a new book on using concordancers for academic writing by Tatyana Karpenko-Seccombe. I also made a YouTube video on the same topic.

Read: Online concordancers review

Watch: Concordancers for academic English study
[YouTube/ YouKu]
 

Nursing Collocation List

The Nursing Collocation List (NCL) is a list of 488 collocations which occur frequently in nursing journal articles. It was developed in 2020 by Kaja Mandić and Izabela Dankić. With their permission, I have added a copy of the list to the website, and have also developed a highlighter for the list. Great for nursing students or ESAP teachers of nursing students.

Check out: Nursing Collocation List (NCL)

New infographics

There are a couple of new infographics: one for features of academic writing, another for reading and note-taking.

Read: Features of academic writing

Read: Reading and note-taking

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21 Idioms for Academic Writing

This video shows the 21 most common idioms used in academic writing in English, most of which are also common in academic speaking. The video also explains the background to the list of idioms, which come from the academic idioms list derived by Julia Miller of The University of Adelaide.

Watch: 21 Academic Idioms [YouTube/ YouKu]
 

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