Breaking Down Academic Vocabulary
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Featuring resources from ABE Summer Institute 2015
Presentation by Erin Cary
The objectives of this presentation were to:
learn/review
characteristics of academic
language, and of academic texts
as distinct from narrative or life skill
texts
practice
activities that teach academic
language and text elements
create part of a lesson using an academic or pre-academic text at their own ESL learners’ levels
(beginner, intermediate or advanced)