Day: November 15, 2015

Language Acquisition

The words that ELL/English B students have most difficulty with are the academic, non-subject-specific words  that occur across all disciplines; words like duration, indicate, similarity, furthermore, rate, etc. These words cause problems for two reasons:

  • subject teachers generally assume that their students know these words and seldom teach them explicitly;
  • most of the words are abstract, which makes them much more difficult to learn.

It will be useful to make explicit the meanings of some of the semi-technical vocabulary that reoccur in your subject. Without a strong academic vocabulary  students will struggle to achieve success in your class.

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