{"id":6043,"date":"2017-04-24T11:36:55","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T11:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eltweekly.com\/?p=6043"},"modified":"2017-04-24T11:36:55","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T11:36:55","slug":"focusing-on-vocabulary-for-academic-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eltweekly.humbeestudio.xyz\/?p=6043","title":{"rendered":"Focusing on vocabulary for academic writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"meta\" class=\"style-scope ytd-watch\">\n<div id=\"container\" class=\"style-scope ytd-video-secondary-info-renderer\">\n<div id=\"content\" class=\"style-scope ytd-expander\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-article-stw-overview field-type-text-long field-label-hidden\">\n<p>When it comes to helping students with academic vocabulary, the range of words and phrases they might encounter in the course of their academic studies is huge and can be somewhat daunting. So when we were putting together the new <em><a href=\"https:\/\/elt.oup.com\/student\/academicvocabulary\/?cc=gb&amp;selLanguage=en\">Oxford Academic Vocabulary Practice<\/a><\/em>books, we decided quite early on that the most useful area to focus on would be productive vocabulary: that is the words and phrases that students are actually likely to use in their own writing.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>For all learners, indeed all speakers of a language, their productive vocabulary \u2013 the words they actively use regularly \u2013 is a subset of their receptive vocabulary \u2013 the words they recognize and understand passively. As teachers though, we often forget this distinction and vocabulary lessons can end up a mixed bag of new words and those that are already familiar, words that students are likely to use and those they may only come across occasionally. Concentrating on just the vocabulary that students are most likely to use in their writing can help to tune out some of the \u2018noise\u2019 and create more realistic, focused vocabulary-learning goals.\u00a0In this post, I\u2019ll share just three of the criteria we used to help achieve this aim.<\/p>\n<p>1. Realistic models<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s often said that the best way to improve your vocabulary is to read as much as possible. For students of English for Academic Purposes (EAP), it\u2019s true that reading and noticing the vocabulary used by academic writers is important in developing their receptive vocabulary, but published academic texts may not always provide the best model for studying productive vocabulary.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-article-stw-howdone field-type-text-long field-label-hidden\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/oupeltglobalblog.com\/2017\/04\/04\/focusing-on-vocabulary-for-academic-writing\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to helping students with academic vocabulary, the range of words and phrases they might encounter in the course of their academic studies is huge and can be somewhat daunting. 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