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What is Academic Vocabulary?

Think!

• What is Academic Vocabulary?


• Why is important to learn Academic Vocabulary?
• How can we develop our Academic Vocabulary effectively?
What is Academic Vocabulary?
Academic vocabulary is different from the words we use in
our everyday talk. It is formal, concise and commonly used in
academic texts.

Academic Vocabulary is of two types:


General Academic Vocabulary
Discipline Specific Vocabulary
General academic vocabulary includes words which are
commonly used across all disciplines, such as analyse, data,
explain and imply.

Discipline specific vocabulary includes words which are


particular to a certain discipline, such as Business, Engineering
and Health. Business vocabulary will have words, such as
AIDA model, cold calling and lead.
You need to develop both general academic and discipline
specific vocabulary in order to excel in your academic writing.
Strategies for Academic Vocabulary
Development
Strategies for Developing Academic Vocabulary

• Reading academic texts in your discipline regularly is very


important for developing your academic vocabulary.
• Writing academic texts regularly also helps you remember and
retain vocabulary you have learnt.
• Learning vocabulary from vocabulary books is another useful
strategy for developing vocabulary.
Learn the following information about every new word:
• meaning
• example sentences
• spelling
• pronunciation
• part of speech
• collocation
• connotation
Collocation: It refers to the way words naturally combine and go
together in a language. Specific word often appear together.
The abstract meaning or intension of a term.
PRACTICE TIME!

https://www.examenglish.com/vocabulary/academic_word_list_group1.htm
Resources for Academic Vocabulary
Development
Resources for Academic Vocabulary Development

1. Vocabulary Books
Cambridge Vocabulary in Use is a highly recommended series
of vocabulary books that you can use for learning vocabulary.

It includes the commonly used words at different proficiency


levels, examples, exercises and answers of the exercises.
2. Academic Word List
Academic Word List is (AWL) a list of 570 words which are most
commonly used in all types of academic writing.

The list is arranged in 10 Sublists. Sublist 1 has most commonly


used words, whereas Sublist 10 has least commonly used words.

Learn the meanings of AWL words, their word families, example


sentences and use them regularly in your writing. The Assignment
document contains links to web resources for learning the meanings
and doing exercises for mastering AWL.
PRACTICE TIME!
https://www.examenglish.com/vocabulary/academic_word_list_group2.htm
3. Academic Phrasebank
Academic Phrasebank published by Morley (2014) is one of the
highly useful resources for developing academic vocabulary.
It contains phrases which are commonly used in research papers
and research reports. You need to learn these expressions to use
them in your own writing. It is available at:
http://www.phrasebank.manchester.ac.uk/dr-john-morley/
Learning the Key Words
Learning key words (nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs)
which are commonly used in academic writing is highly
beneficial.

Your textbook provides you explanation and exercises to


learn the key words in academic vocabulary. Please complete
the VLE activities and the assignment to learn the key words
as well as the confusing words.
References

Bailey, S. (2015). Academic writing: A handbook for international

students (4th ed.). Routledge.

Morley, J. (2014). Academic phrasebank. University of Manchester.

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