‘Why teaching academic vocabulary matters’
“What is clear is that the language of what we read… is different to our daily talk. The vocabulary is more rare, the sentence structures more complex, the patterns of imagery more elaborately constructed.”
https://alexquigley.co.uk/why-teaching-academic-vocabulary-matters/
“What is clear is that the language of what we read… is different to our daily talk. The vocabulary is more rare, the sentence structures more complex, the patterns of imagery more elaborately constructed.”
https://alexquigley.co.uk/why-teaching-academic-vocabulary-matters/
Comments
"Erosion" is NOT any better than "wearing away".
"Precipitation" is not any better than snow/rainfall.
"Irrigation" is not better than watering the crops.
Geography teachers are contractually obliged to insist they are.
But they are not.
Latin origin words are better than Anglo Saxon words.
They are more precise.
It's one long word not several short ones.