Academic language represents the formal language used in academic settings like textbooks, classrooms, and tests. It includes technical vocabulary specific to academic disciplines and has a more formal structure than everyday conversational language. The document provides tips for using academic language such as avoiding contractions, informal language, personal references, and emotional language. It advises using formal vocabulary cautiously, emphasizing ideas over people, and citing authoritative sources to support arguments. The purpose is to structure writing analytically for specific academic disciplines.

1. Presented by: RUBELYN G. RABANG
(Student-Teacher)

3. What is
academic
language?

5. • Academic language represents the language
demands of school (academics).
• Academic language includes language used in
textbooks, in classrooms, on tests, and in each
discipline.
• It is different in vocabulary and structure from the
everyday spoken English of social interactions.

6. Academic Disciplines

7. OBJECTIVE
FORMAL TECHNICAL

8. Avoid casual or
conversational language
such as contractions and
informal language.

9. Choose formal
instead of
informal
vocabulary.
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10. Avoid
contractions.
Choose formal
instead of
informal
vocabulary.
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11. Avoid
emotional
language.
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12. Instead of using absolute positives and
negatives, such as ‘proof’ or ‘wrong’.
Use more cautious evaluations, such
as ‘strong evidence’ or less
‘convincing.’
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13. Avoid personal or direct
reference to people or
feelings.

14. Move information
around in the
sentence to
emphasize things
and ideas, instead of
people and feelings.
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‘I believe the model
is valid, based on
these findings.’
‘These findings
indicate that the
model is valid.’

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‘amazing’
‘disappointment’
‘valid’
'did not demonstrate’
Avoid evaluative
words that are
based on non-
technical
judgments and
feelings.

16. 3
‘Parents who smoke
are obviously abusing
their children.’
‘Secondhand smoke
has some harmful
effects on children’s
health.'
Avoid intense or
emotional
evaluative
language.

17. 4
‘I think secondhand
smoke causes cancer.’
‘There is evidence to
support the possibility
that secondhand
smoke increases the
risk of cancer.’
Show caution
about your
views, or to
allow room for
others to
disagree.

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‘Language is, in my
view, clearly
something social.’
‘As Haliday (1973)
argues, language is
intrinsically social.’
Find authoritative sources,
such as authors,
researchers and theorists in
books or articles, who
support your point of view,
and refer to them in your
writing.

19. Use vocabulary specific
to the discipline.

20. Be careful about the
meaning of technical
terms. Often the
same word has a
different meaning in
another discipline.
You need to develop
a large vocabulary
for the concepts
specific to the
discipline or
specialization you're
writing for.
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21. Knowing these
distinctions will
help you structure
your writing and
make it more
technical and
analytical.
Use the key
categories and
relationships in your
discipline, that is, the
way information and
ideas are organized
into groups.
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22. What is an
academic language?
Why do we need to use
academic language in
academic texts?

23. In a one whole sheet of paper,
write a short formal biography (150–
200 words) about yourself. Speak
about yourself as if you’re already the
person you dream to become. Apply
the academic language that you
learned in the lesson.

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