What is academic vocabulary?

Understand what academic vocabulary is, with a look at some important academic word lists, plus reasons why studying academic vocabulary is important and some tips on how to study it successfully. ▬ Contents of this video ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 00:00 Intro 00:40 Definition 03:57 Academic wordlists single words 05:43 Vocabulary shift 08:22 General words with academic meaning 11:27 Academic wordlists subject-specific lists 13:11 Academic wordlists multiword lists 16:03 Why is academic vocabulary important? 17:17 Example text 21:29 Learning academic vocabulary 23:29 Outro ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ For more information on this topic, see: There is a worksheet which goes with this video: You can also watch the video on Youku: If you like these videos, consider supporting my work on Patreon at: You can get early access to videos as well as additional resources for English for Academic Purposes (EAP). Other useful links: Sniper and Speaker icons created by Freepik - Flaticon Target icons created by istar_design_bureau - Flaticon Building icons created by Creative Stall Premium - Flaticon References Text extract: Uses of &in academic writing Granger, S. and Larrson, T. (2021), &core vocabulary a friend or foe of academic writing? Single-word vs multi-word uses of THING&Journal of English for Academic Purposes 52 (2021) 100999 Overview of academic vocabulary Baumann, J.F. and Graves, M.F. (2010) &is Academic Vocabulary?&Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, v54 n1...