ABSTRACT: This study is a corpus-based lexical analysis English Book-I (PTBB) used at the intermediate level in all the colleges of Punjab. It purports to explore academic words in text coverage and frequency distribution of those words. For conducting this study LexTutor (Vocabulary Profiler Software) is adopted to meet the objectives of the study. The findings of the study reflected that the AWL word families constitute only a small coverage (5.62%) of the lexemes used in the entire book. The analysis shows that many words in the textbook occur occasionally; hence, it would not be possible for the students to retain that vocabulary items to be used in their future linguistic repertoire………………..
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