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Direct linkDobbs, Christina L.; Kearns, Devin – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2016
Understanding academic vocabulary is essential to student success in school. Use of academic vocabulary words in writing is considered one of the strongest measures of how well a reader understands a given word. In theory, willingness to use academic vocabulary in writing indicates the complexity of acquiring representations of the word's…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Academic Discourse, Writing (Composition), Essays
