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Academic language across subjects – components ( (vocabulary and Grammatical Structures)

This document discusses the importance of explicitly teaching academic language across subjects. It identifies the three main components of academic language as vocabulary, grammatical structures, and functions. Vocabulary is categorized into three tiers - Tier I words are common everyday words, Tier II words are more advanced words used in different contexts, and Tier III words are specific to a content area. Effective strategies for teaching vocabulary include selecting words, recording definitions, learning meanings, and assessing understanding. Grammatical structures refer to parts of speech, sentences, punctuation, and other rules. Elements of grammar include form, meaning, and word order. The document emphasizes explicitly teaching these academic language components across different subjects.

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Suresh Babu G Academic language across Subjects Suresh Babu G Assistant Professor
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Suresh Babu G Components of Academic language Across Subjects The three main components of academic language are vocabulary, grammatical structures, and functions. ... For most students, academic language cannot be learned through exposure within a classroom setting, but must be explicitly taught, practiced, and applied to a variety of content areas, repeatedly throughout the year.
Suresh Babu G Vocabulary • A vocabulary, also known as a word stock or word-stock, is a set of familiar words within a person's language. • A vocabulary, usually developed with age, serves as a useful and fundamental tool for communication and acquiring knowledge. • When the learners learn the word they know both the meaning of the word and how to use the words.
Suresh Babu G Tier I Tier I words are the words we use everyday in our speech. These words are typically learned through conversation. These are common words that rarely require direct instruction. Example Come, see, happy, table Tier II Tier II words are-frequency words that occurs across contexts. These words are used by mature language users and are more common in writing than in everyday speech. Tier II words are important for students to know to enhance comprehension of a selected text. Tier II words the best words for targeted explicit vocabulary instruction. Example endure, arrange, compare, contrast Tier III Tier III words are low-frequency words and are limited to a specific domain. They often pertain to specific content area . These words are best learned within the context of the lesson or subject matter. Example atom, molecule, metamorphic, sedimentary
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Suresh Babu G Effective Strategies to expand students Productive Vocabulary  Selecting the words – here teacher informed the learners that they need to learn 6 vocabulary words out of 11-12 words.  Recording the words and monitoring the recording – The students have written the words on one-side colour cards.  Learning the words – learning the word coloured  Shared with words  Assessing and monitoring learning  Recycling the vocabulary - write short story or report
Suresh Babu G Strategies for teaching vocabulary across the curriculum • Alphaboxes – It is strategy that uses the 26 letters of the alphabet to record important concept about a specific topic or theme. • Word Questioning • Linear arrays – Focusing on word relationships is one of the most frequently cited successful instructional strategies for teaching vocabulary. • Polar opposites – A companion strategy to linear arrays is polar opposites.
Suresh Babu G • Story impressions – Clue words and phrases to story. • Words sorts for narrative text – Teacher creates a collection of important words and phrases from a story on index card. • Words sorts for expository text • Anticipation Guide
Suresh Babu G Grammar • In linguistics, grammar is the set of structural rules governing the composition of clauses, phrases and words in a natural language. The term refers also to the study of such rules and this field includes phonology, morphology and syntax, often complemented by phonetics, semantics and pragmatics. At the sound level, phonology refers to the rules of the sound system and the rules of sound combination. At the word level, morphology refers to the structure and construction of words. ... Syntax refers to the rules of word order and word combinations in order to form phrases and sentences.
Suresh Babu G Grammar • The grammar of a language refers to the way words are put together to make meaningful sentences. • Traditional grammar has some useful terms that you need to be able to use when you are discussing your writing and referring to sources that describe writing. • Using grammar terms to describe writing problems
Suresh Babu G Grammatical components Parts of speech Prepositions Sentence agreement Verb tenses  Modals
Suresh Babu G The rules - Grammar • Rule 1: You must write in sentences. • Rule 2: Subjects and verbs in sentences must agree with each other. • Rule 3: You must use appropriate punctuation. • Rule 4: You must use the right vocabulary. • Rule 5: You must use the apostrophe correctly and with care.
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Suresh Babu G Grammatical structure • Grammatical structure is commonly assumed to exist in speakers' minds. • Grammatical structure is also directly involved in social interaction in language use, and language use is central to accounting for language acquisition, language variation and language change. • Grammatical structure deals with the thing people say, but it means more than the mere recording of examples of usage.
Suresh Babu G Elements of Grammar Structure • Form and Meaning. – any structure, or pattern, and is often call a unit, is assumed to consist of form and meaning. • Elements of form used in grammatical structures. – word order, inflection (bound morphemes), correlation of forms, function words, intonation, stress, and pauses. • Word order as a grammatical signal.
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