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The Learning and Use of Academic English Words

Corson, David·1997·Language Learning
DOI 10.1111/0023-8333.00025
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This article examines the learning and use of academic English words by students who differ socioculturally. It argues that the Graeco‐Latin vocabulary of English, which dominates the language's academic vocabulary, offers various levels of potential difficulty for students from different class, cultural, or linguistic social factions. It presents the evidence for this conclusion by integrating work from discursive psychology, the sociology of language, psycholinguistics, and applied linguistics, and by attempting a comprehensive review of the published literature on its topic. The article concludes by inferring some changes to practices in L1 and L2 academic English education.

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  • Words in secondary settings are Graeco-Latin in origin and differ from English words having Anglo-Saxon origin.

    “Quirk [161] notes that words in secondary settings are Graeco-Latin in origin and distinguishes them from English words having an Anglo-Saxon origin, which are typically short (monosyllabic), learned early in life, and form the basis of everyday discourse.”

    From Curriculum-Based Measurement: A Brief History of Nearly Everything from the 1970s to the Present (2013) · cites this paper as [161]

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Authors
Corson, D.
Affiliations
University of Toronto (CA)
Corresponding author
Corson, David
Venue
Language Learning
Publisher
Wiley
Published
1997-12
Volume
47
Issue
4
Pages
671-718
ISSN
  • 0023-8333 (ISSN-L)
  • 1467-9922
DOI
10.1111/0023-8333.00025
OpenAlex
W2132379210
Cited by
267
References
0
Citations by year
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FWCI
3.77
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor (vor, 1842 d)
Locations
Language Learning (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Second Language Acquisition and Learning
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
Keywords
academic vocabulary, English for academic purposes, vocabulary acquisition, sociocultural background, class differences, second language acquisition, English as a second language, word usage, language teaching practice

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