who prepared a list of the vocabulary for foundation students. He considered three important criteria in his study, first: the list presupposed little or no grammatical knowledge; second, the list could be used by learners with low levels of proficiency, and finally it was applicable in all the engineering disciplines. Furthermore, Chung (2009) did a study using a corpus of 579,849 running words form the newspapers and their primary purpose was to come up with a list of the words that were most applicable in reading newspapers. Their study rendered 588 word families that were most applicable in reading newspapers.
As there have been different explanations and claims about GSL and AWL, the present study aims to investigate the amount of AWL and GSL coverage in the realm of Hard Sciences.