AJ21010 Studying Academic Vocabulary

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2004
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus 2 credits for an exam). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
James Edward Thomas, M.A. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Department of Machine Learning and Data Processing – Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: Mgr. Michaela Hrazdílková
Timetable
Tue 15:00–16:35 PP
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 15 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/15, only registered: 0/15, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/15
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Academic Vocabulary, also known as Sub-technical Vocabulary (STV), refers to word families which are common to academic and professional writing and are beyond the basic core vocabulary of a language. It therefore excludes both the first 2,000 most frequent word families and field specific vocabulary. It accounts for approximately 15% of word counts in academic writing. Despite the fact that many STV items are known passively by non-native speaker students, it has been demonstrated that they are not deployed actively. The studying of the title refers not only to learning vocabulary, but also to the more analytical process. A sample of the 570 STV word families will be introduced as will methods of studying and deploying them. The active-passive dichotomy will be expanded to recognition-recall and comprehension-use. The equally important roles of context and co-text will be demonstrated as paths to coming to know a word. Since there is a plethora of computer resources to assist students and researchers in these aspects of word knowledge, this course will be taught hands on at computers.
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Assessment Students will be required to demonstrate skills, submit a series of tasks and create their own website.
Language of instruction
English
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2003.
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