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Academic Literacy

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Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

Academic Literacy

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Curso 1 de 5 em Specialization English for Research Publication Purposes

This is the first course of the English for Research Publication Purposes Specialization. The course is an introduction to what you need to know about academic discourse. You’ll gain important critical reading skills to help you develop as a self-critical scientific writer. You will learn practical tools and effective strategies for increasing your academic vocabulary and grammar so that you will write well-structured coherent academic texts.

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MODULE II : DEVELOPING ACADEMIC VOCABULARY

This module covers issues related to building academic vocabulary. The module clarifies word-formation processes, i.e., affixation, conversion, and compounding. The focus is on strategic language re-use and ways of dealing with new words. The module provides software tools for extracting frequently occurring vocabulary specific to an area of research.

Introductory Video2:33

Building Blocks10:32

Forming New Words12:12

Nominalisations10:50

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Elena Bazanova
Director of the Language Training and Testing Center
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

It is known that the language Wordstock is enriched basically in two words.

By word formation and by borrowing.

There is interesting research that shows word formation reflects the knowledge and

the experience of the cultural life of both an individual and community.

And contributes to the formation of the linguistic picture of the world.

Even in ancient philosophy,

we can trace the Earth's cognitive nature of durational word formation processes.

Philosophers; Plato, Heraclitus and

others believed, that a word must be created and made use of in a proper way.

Otherwise, the order in the society can be broken and

a new word appears not just all of the sudden, but it reflectsthe multi aspect

co-relation between the objects of the reality and the language sign.

This understanding gives rise to the belief that cognitive human activity

is not confined just to the use of already existing lexical unit.

But also includes the ability to form a new words,

which can be regarded as an inseparable part of word cognition.

In world linguistics various classes of words are studied not for

practical purposes.

But also, in an attempt to explain how it is that speakers

know how to build new words and how to combine words into sentences.

A person is a native creator of a language.

And new words represent the result of this creative activity.

Word-production is a multi aspect process which aims to fill in the gaps which

appear due to different reasons.

Appearance of new concepts,

ideas, terminology often connected with science and technology development.

Economy and unification of language means, abbreviations, word compounding,

conversions, blending, emotional expression, borrowings and

occasional words.

Language fashion, which also borrowings.

Speech inaccurateness.

All these reasons stimulate the creation of new words including the process of

speech and thought production activity.

While creating a new word,

the speaker spontaneously refers it to some definite part of speech,

uses it in the required grammar form, correlating it with surrounding words.

Thus, knowing how words are created and used in a sentence will significantly

improve your academic reading, and help you increase your vocabulary.

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