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 * Complete Academic Word List **


 * There are no rules about how you learn the words on the AWL, and everyone has their own ways of learning new vocabulary. However, here are a few methods that I recommend you use: **
 * 1. ** Make a table, as shown below.

1. When you look at each AWL sublist, put each word into the column that best describes how well you know and understand it. This will help you to priorities the order in which you learn the words. You might decide to focus on the brand new words, or solidify the words you understand but don’t use. Either way, you can move the words up or down the list to give you a clear idea of your progress, or lack of progress! 2. Set yourself a goal to learn 5 or 10 new words per day. Use flash cards to help you, carry them around with you, and look at them often. You want to improve your speed of retrieval (remembering the meaning), not just recognizing them. Each time you retrieve a word your understanding of it becomes stronger, especially if you start thinking of sentences in which you can use them. 3. Make a habit of writing the words into sentences, everyday, and ask a native teacher or friend to check them for you. This will increase the number of times you use them, and so make retrieval even stronger. 4. Avoid learning similar sounding words, or words with a similar meaning, together. This will make it difficult to retrieve them, and you will quickly become confused. Choose words that are very different in sound, spelling and meaning. 5.Each time you do any study, make sure to rest, before moving on to something different. This will allow the information to be organized in your brain, and so make retrieval better. This is why people who study or read just before going to sleep at night, have better memories of what they studied or read, well into the future. 6.Challenge yourself to read short academic texts, or news articles everyday. Do this often. Little and often is the golden rule. Do a little bit regularly, will strengthen retrieval and concentration.