TY - JOUR
T1 - Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes
T2 - Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects
AU - Green, Clarence
AU - Lambert, James
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was funded by Grant number: OER DEV 01/16 CGG , by the Office of Education Research , Ministry of Education.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Elsevier Ltd
Copyright:
Copyright 2018 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2018/9
Y1 - 2018/9
N2 - The knowledge of academic vocabulary is crucial for educational success, and recently there has been a push amongst teachers and researchers to assist students at the pre-tertiary level to develop their disciplinary literacy and understanding of how academic English varies across disciplines. EAP research has developed advanced methods for producing corpus-informed vocabulary resources, but these have yet to be fully leveraged to promote disciplinary literacy within the secondary school context. For example, the focus of most previous wordlists has been on general academic vocabulary or the discipline-specific vocabulary needed in tertiary education. The current research contributes a series of discipline-specific wordlists for secondary school education, the Secondary School Vocabulary Lists (SVL), covering eight core subjects: Biology, Chemistry, Economics, English, Geology, History, Mathematics, and Physics. Further, the SVL goes beyond wordlists alone in developing accompanying word family and word association (i.e. collocation) lists for the disciplinary lexis. The SVL thus provides secondary education teachers with an unprecedented set of resources covering key vocabulary for the eight core disciplines informed by innovative EAP corpus methods.
AB - The knowledge of academic vocabulary is crucial for educational success, and recently there has been a push amongst teachers and researchers to assist students at the pre-tertiary level to develop their disciplinary literacy and understanding of how academic English varies across disciplines. EAP research has developed advanced methods for producing corpus-informed vocabulary resources, but these have yet to be fully leveraged to promote disciplinary literacy within the secondary school context. For example, the focus of most previous wordlists has been on general academic vocabulary or the discipline-specific vocabulary needed in tertiary education. The current research contributes a series of discipline-specific wordlists for secondary school education, the Secondary School Vocabulary Lists (SVL), covering eight core subjects: Biology, Chemistry, Economics, English, Geology, History, Mathematics, and Physics. Further, the SVL goes beyond wordlists alone in developing accompanying word family and word association (i.e. collocation) lists for the disciplinary lexis. The SVL thus provides secondary education teachers with an unprecedented set of resources covering key vocabulary for the eight core disciplines informed by innovative EAP corpus methods.
KW - Academic vocabulary
KW - Corpus linguistics
KW - Disciplinary literacy
KW - Secondary education
KW - Wordlists
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85053082929&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jeap.2018.07.004
DO - 10.1016/j.jeap.2018.07.004
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85053082929
VL - 35
SP - 105
EP - 115
JO - Journal of English for Academic Purposes
JF - Journal of English for Academic Purposes
SN - 1475-1585
ER -