Keywords: Vocabulary

"Vocabulary." by Mina Shaughnessy

"Teaching the Vocabulary of Academic Discourse." by Sandra Stotsky

Shaughnessy, Mina. "Vocabulary." in Theresa Enos, 507--520. [from Errors and Expectations]

Shaugnessy makes several suggestions for teaching vocabulary. First, the vocabulary students are given is necessary for them to be able to understand and define the field. However, a distinction should be made between vocabulary necessary to understand the field and vocabulary necessary for continuing the academy's stylistic preferences.

Stotsky, Sandra. "Teaching the Vocabulary of Academic Discourse." in Theresa Enos, 328-347.

This article discusses the type of vocabulary students need to learn, as well as methods by which students can be taught a vocabulary. She suggests that "just" reading is inadequate for teaching vocabulary because students need to understand suffixes, prefixes, and roots of words in order to understand academic vocabulary. Toward this end, Stotsky believes that instruction in Latin can benefit basic writers.