Name of Students Number of Purpose of Study Method Use to

Authors involved students Achieve the 60 Words

Involved

Adbou 12 grade 50 To investigate the Mobile phone

(2014) students students effectiveness of using applications (SMS).
SMS applications on
learning English
vocabulary.

Howrey and First year 35 To investigate four Vocabulary cards

Quinn English students different methods of and Moodle
(2016) University learning English
students vocabulary
from the Academic
Word List (AWL), with
emphasis on
comparing the benefits
of print materials versus
online Moodle
materials.

Busby First year 182 To investigate how A web program

(2015) students university Norwegian university which highlights the
students students compare to AWL
native English speaking
students in their
understanding of
academic English by
comparing reading
times and
comprehension for an
academic and a general
language text.
Table 3.2 Related studies that exploit AWL in the study.