Averil Coxhead

Dr Averil Coxhead

Senior Lecturer
School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies
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RSA Cert. TEFL Bournemouth, BA, DipTESL, MA, PhD

Averil is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics. She teaches courses on second language learning in the BEdTESOL and the MA in Applied Linguistics/TESOL programs. Averil has taught in New Zealand, England, Estonia, Hungary, and Romania.

Selected Publications

Averil Coxhead is the author of Essentials of Teaching Academic Vocabulary (Heinle, 2006) and An Academic Word List (click this link to order a copy of the AWL).

Click here to go to the Academic Word List website

Click here for the pilot EAP Science list (Coxhead & Hirsh, 2007)

Books/Edited Volumes

• Coxhead, A. (2011). Using vocabulary in writing in a second language: Writing from sources. Koln : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. 
• Coxhead, A. (2010). Special issue of in honour of Paul Nation. Reading in a foreign language. 22(1): 1-241.
• Coxhead, A. (2006). Essentials of teaching academic vocabulary. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. (Since 2007 this book is published through Heinle Cengage).
• Coxhead, A. (1998). An Academic Word List. ELI Occasional Publications #18, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington: Wellington.

Chapters in books

• Coxhead, A. (2010). What can corpora tell us about English for Academic Purposes? In A. O'Keefe; M. McCarthy (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of Corpus Linguistics, (pp. 458-470).  Oxford: Routledge.
• Coxhead, A. (2008). The best practice is practice. In A, Jendli, C. Coombe (Eds.), Best practice in English language teaching (pp. 3 - 14). TESOL Arabia: Dubai, UAE.
• Coxhead, A., Hunter, J., Pierard, J. and Cooke, D. (2008). Cultural context and academic context. What difference do they make in EAP students? in A. Burns & J. Burton (Eds.), Language teacher research in Australia and New Zealand. Alexandria, Virginia: TESOL.
• Coxhead, A. (2008). Phraseology and English for Academic Purposes: Challenges and Opportunities. In F. Meunier and S. Granger (Eds.), Phraseology in language learning and teaching (pp. 149-161). Amsterdam. John Benjamins.

Journal articles

• Coxhead, A. (2011). The Academic Word List ten years on: Research and teaching implications. TESOL Quarterly, 45(2):355 - 362. 
• Coxhead, A., Stevens, L, & Tinkle, J, (2010).  Why might secondary science textbooks be difficult to read?  New Zealand Studies in Applied Linguistics, 16(2): 35-52.
• Hirsh, D. & Coxhead, A. (2009). Ten ways of focusing on science-specific vocabulary in EAP.; English Australia Journal 25(1): 5-16.
• Coxhead, A. & Hirsh, D. (2007). A pilot science word list for EAP. Revue Franaise de Linguistique Applique XII (2): 65 - 78.

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Research Areas

Averil supervises MA and PhD research in the areas of vocabulary use and learning in a second language, with a particular interest in specialised vocabulary, Corpus Linguistics, vocabulary size, English for Academic Purposes and English for Specific Purposes.

Administrative Responsibilities

• LALS Teaching and Learning Director