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AWL Builder: Now in Japanese, Thai and English Learn academic wordsscientifically, easily and quickly using science-based technologyfor FREE! AWL Builder uses the Intelligent Flashcards technology.The app is designed to lessen forgetting by bringing back words foryou to study before you forget them. The app contains simple toolsto help you learn the 570 word Academic Wordlist, keep detailedrecords of your progress and the ability to email your progress toyourself, or a teacher. Definitions are written in simple English,with part of speech, and pronunciation of each word by a nativespeaker of English. How to use the app: 1. Select "Choose yourwords" 2. Select your level. 3. Add words you want to learn fromeach band 4. Study the words. 5. If your guess is right, tap'Right", and the app will move it to the next learning stage. Youwill see it in one day from now. If your guess is wrong, tap"Wrong" you will see the word again soon. 6. Get more words whenyou have learnt all the ones in your list 7. Use the app in a fewdays to learn words at the right time so you do not forget them 8.Open Settings to change how you use the app. Happy learning! Alsodownload our other free apps (available for iOSX too!) and learnthese words too! New Academic Wordlist Builder - 963 words fromCulligan, Browne and Phillips's New Academic Wordlist(www.newacademicwordlist.com) New General Service List Builder(NGSL Builder) - 2280 words of general English that cover 90% ofany English text (www.newgeneralservicelist.com) General ServiceList Builder (GSL Builder) - 1800 words from Michael West's famouswordlist About Intelligent Flashcards: The app also contains anIntelligent Wordlist Maker and Intelligent Flashcard system. TheIntelligent Wordlist Maker helps you to quickly and efficientlypick only the words you don’t know for study in the flashcardsystem. Rather than force you to go through the entire list atonce, Intelligent Wordlist Maker guides you through the list byfrequency bands, allowing you to add words little by little, justas you need them or when you have time. Based on the welldocumented science of “spaced-repetition”, the IntelligentFlashcard system systematically and efficiently helps you to reviewthe words several times over a period of a month, giving you extratime with the words that are giving you difficulty. About the AWLThis application is designed to help learners and teachers make useof the highly regarded Academic Word List (AWL) developed by Dr.Averil Coxhead, Professor at Victoria University of Wellington, NewZealand. This list of 570 words are the most frequent and mostimportant academic words outside of the core 2000 GSL words ofEnglish. Although there are more than 600,000 words in the Englishlanguage knowledge of just the 2000 core words and 570 AWL wordsgives you 87% coverage of words in academic texts typically used incolleges and universities. References Carroll, J. B. (1971).Statistical analysis of the corpus. In The American Heritage WordFrequency Book (pp. xxi – xl). Boston: Houghton Mifflin.