Clarence Green|James Lambert
Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects
Nanyang Technological University|Nanyang Technological University
knowledge academic vocabulary crucial educational success recently push amongst teachers researchers assist students pretertiary level develop disciplinary literacy understanding academic english varies across disciplines eap research developed advanced methods producing corpusinformed vocabulary resources yet fully leveraged promote disciplinary literacy within secondary school context example focus previous wordlists general academic vocabulary disciplinespecific vocabulary needed tertiary education current research contributes series disciplinespecific wordlists secondary school education secondary school vocabulary lists svl covering eight core subjects biology chemistry economics english geology history mathematics physics svl goes beyond wordlists alone developing accompanying word family word association ie collocation lists disciplinary lexis svl thus provides secondary education teachers unprecedented set resources covering key vocabulary eight core disciplines informed innovative eap corpus methods