Spoken and Academic Writing Phrasal Verb Pedagogical List

The Spoken and Academic Writing Phrasal Verb Pedagogical List (S&AW PHaVE List)  is a listing of the most common meanings of the most frequently used phrasal verbs in spoken and academic written English. It is compiled as a reference source for ESL/EFL learners and teachers. It is similar to Garnier and Schmitt’s (2015) PHaVE List in format but differs in that while the PHaVE List provides the most common meanings of the most frequently used phrasal verbs in general English (i.e., across registers), this list presents the most common meanings of the phrasal verbs in the speaking and the academic writing registers respectively.

To help users better understand how the 150 phrasal verbs differ in the way their semantic usages vary between speaking and writing, they are are divided into three groups based on the extent and the way in which their semantic usage distributions vary across the two registers:

• – Group 1 includes those phrasal whose main meanings differ significantly both in meaning order and percentage across the two registers
• – Group 2 consists of those whose order of main meanings is the same but the percentages differ significantly
• – Group 3 are phrasal verbs whose main meanings are similar both in order and percentages across the two registers, with most of them each share essentially a single meaning in both registers.