What is Academic Language?
Domain Specific Vocabulary- i.e. biology,
geometry, civics, geography, etc. or
words that are general academic
vocabulary that may mean something
different in each discipline.
General Academic Vocab 570 Word
families, the stem+all inflections and the
most frequent, productive and regular
prefixes and suffixes.
Metalanguage: i.e. genre, or factor,
postulate
Symbols usually Mathematically, but also
Geography.
