Academic vocabulary in an EAP course: Opportunities for incidental learning from printed teaching materials developed in-house

Teaching materials developed in-house are commonly used in EAP courses; however, research on their linguistic content, which can have important pedagogical implications, is scarce. This study examines the occurrence and repetition of general academic vocabulary, operationalised as Academic Vocabulary List (AVL) (Gardner & Davies, 2014), printed teaching a presessional course at UK university. The was divided into three modules taught over five weeks. At end each week, teachers provided us with photocopies they had used. A corpus compiled from module. results show that 846 AVL lemmas (i.e., 28.07% AVL) appeared materials. They were not equally distributed among only 90 overlapped across modules. also average rate unlikely to lead incidental development recall knowledge exposure these alone. Recommendations made for activities increase students' vocabulary facilitate its learning.