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Piggybacking Academic Vocabulary Instruction : Explicit Instruction of Academic Vocabulary Within an Existing Course of Study

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Enriching the academic wordlist and Secondary Vocabulary Lists with lexicogrammar: Toward a pattern grammar of academic vocabulary

System, 2019
Abstract The interaction between lexis and grammatical patterns has been known in the literature as lexicogrammar, and research in this area has suggested that learning vocabulary necessitates learning accompanying grammatical patterns. Existing academic wordlists, focusing on isolated vocabulary items out of grammatical context, thus could be ...
Clarence Green
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Is There an “Academic Vocabulary”?

TESOL Quarterly, 2007
This article considers the notion of academic vocabulary: the assumption that students of English for academic purposes (EAP) should study a core of high frequency words because they are common in an English academic register. We examine the value of the term by using Coxhead's (2000) Academic Word List (AWL) to explore the distribution of its 570 word
Hyland, Ken, Tse, Polly
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Vocabulary knowledge and academic achievement revisited: General and academic vocabulary as determinant factors

Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 2021
It is uncontroversial to suggest that in order to be successful in academic study through the medium of English as a Foreign Lanuage, a learner will need a large general vocabulary and knowledge of...
Ahmed Masrai, James Milton
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FOAF-Academic Ontology: A Vocabulary for the Academic Community

2011 Third International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems, 2011
The aim of Semantic Web is to add machineprocessable information to the Web. Our focus is on information related to people. This problem in Semantic Web is addressed by the FOAF Vocabulary. FOAF Vocabulary describes people, their activities and the people they know.
Edlira Kalemi, Edlira Martiri
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Classwide Extensions of Vocabulary Intervention Improve Learning of Academic Vocabulary by Preschoolers

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
PurposeMany preschoolers, especially those from low-income households, would benefit from instruction to enrich their vocabulary and language repertoires. Yet, explicit instruction of vocabulary and language skills generally occurs infrequently in early childhood education settings. This study investigated the additive effects of teacher-led, classwide
Yagmur, Seven   +7 more
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Measuring depth of academic vocabulary knowledge

Language Teaching Research, 2022
In second language (L2) vocabulary studies there is continuing interest in tests of depth of vocabulary knowledge, measuring various aspects of word knowledge other than just the form–meaning link that is the focus of breadth (or size) tests. This study aimed to explore new formats that could be used as diagnostic tools for assessing depth of academic ...
John Read, Thi Ngoc Yen Dang
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Listening for schwa in academic vocabulary

Reading Psychology, 2018
The schwa sound, as the most frequent in English, is a near constant in words of three syllables or longer in academic texts.
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