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<p style="text-align:justify;">Scientific English is not homogenous but&nbsp;varies in relation to the contexts. As a contribution to the field, this study&nbsp;developed a list of academic words used frequently in physiotherapy research&nbsp;articles (RAs) and compared it with the distribution of high frequency words in&nbsp;Coxhead’s (2000) Academic Word List (AWL) and West’s (1953) General Service&nbsp;(GSL). By analyzing a 1.7 million-word corpus, 1450 high frequent academic word&nbsp;families were identified and constituted the Physiotherapy Academic Word List&nbsp;(PAWL). The analysis showed that, of the 570 word families in AWL, 562 occurred&nbsp;frequently in physiotherapy research articles (RAs) and this provided a&nbsp;coverage of 11.51 of the tokens in the corpus. In addition, 406 word families&nbsp;(accounting for 28% of the word families in PAWL) found to be used frequently&nbsp;in PRAC had not been listed in GSL and AWL. The results indicate that AWL&nbsp;(Coxhead, 2000) is not entirely useful for physiotherapy learners because of&nbsp;the narrow coverage of some word families and the shortage of frequently used&nbsp;physiotherapy academic words. The established PAWL may serve as a guide for&nbsp;instructors in curriculum preparation, and for physiotherapy English learners&nbsp;in setting their vocabulary learning goals.</p>

A Corpus-based Study of Academic Vocabulary in Physiotherapy Research Articles

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