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Academic Vocabulary
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Academic Vocabulary
If your goal is to read academic writing (college textbooks, etc) and write
academic papers (essays, etc), you can save yourself a lot of time and effort by
focusing on academic vocabulary
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What is Academic Vocabulary?
Academic Vocabulary is a specialized vocabulary of 570 word families that commonly appear in all academic
textbooks, regardless of major field of study
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Academic Vocabulary Learning
In general vocabulary learning, to go from 80% understanding to 86% understanding would require you to learn 2,000 more word families
In academic vocabulary learning, to go from 80% understanding to 86% understanding would require you to learn 570 more word families
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Do you think studying academic vocabulary will be
helpful?
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This semester, we will focus on learning academic
vocabulary
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Academic Vocabulary
In each unit this semester, approximately 100 word families from the academic word list will
appear.
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Keeping 4 principles in mind will help you develop
your vocabulary as much as possible this semester
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Vocabulary Learning Strategies
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In order to develop your vocabulary, you should keep
4 main principles in mind
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4 Main Principles
Number 1
You should be active in developing your understanding of words and ways to
learn them
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Active Learning Strategies
• Semantic Mapping:
Making a graphic representation of the relationship between words
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Semantic Mapping
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Active Learning Strategies
• Definition Mapping:
Working with grammar, meaning,
and sample sentences
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Active Learning Strategies
• Grouping:
Recognizing the relatedness of a word
to other words
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Grouping
Words thatDescribe Large
Scale
massive
huge enormous
immense
extensive
vast
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4 Main Principles
Number 2
You should personalize your vocabulary learning
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Personalized Learning Strategies
• Choosing words:
Identify key concepts and the words required to understand these concepts
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Personalized Learning Strategies
• Choosing words:
Identify important terms you need to learn
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Personalized Learning Strategies
• Choosing words:
Identify meaningful similarities and differences among the concepts / words
being studied
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Personalizing words
• Node Acquisition and Integration Technique (NAIT):
• Students identify key concepts or important terms they need to learn within a text.
• Students construct a semantic network around each of the selected key concepts.
• Students think of examples or potential applications of the key concepts and record these examples on the definition worksheet.
• Students identify meaningful similarities and differences among the different concepts being studied.
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4 Main Principles
Number 3
You should be immersed in words
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Immersion in Words
• Opportunities:
Put yourself in a word-
and language-rich environment
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Immersion in Words
• Opportunities:
Become aware of words and how they are used in the input you receive
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Immersion in Words
• Opportunities:
Try to use new / interesting words
in your speaking and writing
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4 Main Principles
Number 4
You should use multiple sources of information to learn words through
repeated exposures
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Repeated Exposure
• Opportunities:
Watch television news / programs that are related to the topic of environment
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Repeated Exposure
• Opportunities:
Read newspaper / magazine articles
related to the topic on environment
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Repeated Exposure
• Opportunities:
Discuss environment-related topics with friends, family, classmates, etc
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Summary4 Principles of Vocabulary Learning
• You should be active in developing your understanding of words and ways to learn them
• You should personalize your word learning• You should be immersed in words• You should use multiple sources of
information to learn words through repeated exposures
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Keeping these 4 principles in mind will help you develop
your vocabulary as much as possible this semester
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Two important elements of vocabulary learning
1 Quality:
How well do you know each word?
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Quality
Goal:
To improve how much you know about each word
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Quality
• Spoken Form:
What does the word sound like?
How is it pronounced?
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Quality
• Written Form:
What does the word look like?
How is it written?
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Quality
• Meaning:
What meaning does this form
of the word have?
for example:
consider vs. considerably
individual vs. individualism
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Quality
• Concepts:
What things can the concept refer to?
for example:
fertile soil
fertile mind
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Quality
• Associations:
What other words does this word make you think of?
for example:
fundamentally - basicallyvast - massive - huge - extensive
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Quality
• Grammatical Patterns:
In what patterns does the word occur?
– transitive vs. intransitive verbs– two-word verbs: opt out of– prepositions: interest in, responsible for– relative clauses: suggest that, conclude
that
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Quality
• Collocations:
What words or type of words occur with this word?
for example: – complex problem
– complex issue– complex person
– complex idea
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Quality
• Restrictions on use (register differences):
Where, when, and how often would you expect to meet this word?
for example:ethos, kin, institutionalize =
formal academic words
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Quantity
Goal:
To increase the number of words you know
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Quantity
Educated adult native speakers of English know approximately 20,000 word
families
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Quantity
College freshman ESL students know approximately 2,000 - 3,000 word
families
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Quantity
If you know the most frequent 1,000 words of English, you should be able to understand 72% of the words on the page of a book, newspaper, or magazine
Known
Unknown
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Quantity
Known
Unknown
If you know the most frequent 2,000 words of English, you should be able to understand 80% of the words on the page of a book, newspaper, or magazine
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Quantity
Known
Unknown
If you know the most frequent 3,000 words of English, you should be able to understand 84% of the words on the page of a book, newspaper, or magazine
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Quantity
Known
Unknown
If you know the most frequent 4,000 words of English, you should be able to understand 86% of the words on the page of a book, newspaper, or magazine
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Quantity
In order to understand 95% of the words on a page of a book, newspaper, or magazine, you need to know approximately 12,500 words
In order to understand 99% of the words on a page of a book, newspaper, or magazine, you need to know approximately 44,000 words
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