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Academic vocabulary in an English for Academic Purposes course
Proceedings of 11th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics, 2020 Academic vocabulary instruction can be beneficial to students in EMI universities since academic vocabulary knowledge predicts performance in academic tasks. With the aim to inform EAP materials design, this study examines the occurrence and repetition of high-frequency academic vocabulary in the printed teaching materials used in a presessional EAP ...
Sophia Skoufaki, Bojana Petrić
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A New Academic Vocabulary List [PDF]
Applied Linguistics, 2013 This article presents our new Academic Vocabulary List (AVL), derived from a 120-million-word academic subcorpus of the 425-million-word Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA; Davies 2012). We first explore reasons why a new academic core list is warranted, and why such a list is still needed in English language education.
D. Gardner, M. Davies
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Academic Vocabulary and Reading Fluency: Unlikely Bedfellows in the Quest for Textual Meaning
Education Sciences, 2018 Academic vocabulary is the specialized language used to communicate within academic settings. The Coxhead (2000) taxonomy is one such list that identifies 570 headwords representing academic vocabulary.
David D. Paige, Grant S. Smith
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Cognitive and Affective Aspects of SMS based Learning at the University Level [PDF]
Athens Journal of Education, 2014 Mobile learning delivery platforms include cell phone based SMS technologies that provide access to learning materials without being limited by space or time. Sophisticated technological advances in the domain of pedagogical delivery have led to flexible,
Yaacov J Katz
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Journal of Language and Education, 2023 Background. Academic vocabulary is considered an essential component in the English language courses in higher education establishments. A number of studies have illustrated that the use of academic words in students’ work alone cannot always promise ...
Liliya Makovskaya, Ijobat Juraeva
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Development of academic vocabulary knowledge during English-medium instruction
IbéricaIn many contexts of English-medium instruction (EMI), the development of English language proficiency is an often-hoped-for outcome. Existing EMI research measuring English proficiency development reports gains in specific areas of English but not others.
Hans Malmström +2 more
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Facta Universitatis. Series, Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education, 2021 This study aimed to explore perceptions about two vocabulary instruction programs as reported from a cohort of 37 English for academic purposes (EAP) students enrolled in an academic speaking course in an English medium (EMI) university.
Ayşegül Nergis
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Applying of vocabulary of academic lexicon in the process of learning foreign language for specific academic purposes [PDF]
Актуальные проблемы филологии и педагогической лингвистики, 2019 The article discusses the relevance of using the dictionary of academic vocabulary in the context of teaching English for academic purposes at non-linguistic faculties of Russian universities.
Samarskaya Svetlana V.
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Effects of morphological intervention on multiple aspects of academic vocabulary knowledge
Acta Psychologica, 2023 Despite the positive role of English morphology in word learning, the existing evidence is mainly on young L1 native speakers' receptive word gains.
Xin Yuan, Xuan Tang
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Developing academic vocabulary objectives: corpus analysis and word lists [PDF]
, 2013 This chapter is concerned with the development of a vocabulary syllabus to accompany and supplement a coursebook series. To further enhance the use of these books, we decided to initiate a project to develop an academic vocabulary syllabus.
Deveci, Tanju, Simpson, Adam John
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