Academic vocabulary

学术词汇

Learning English Vocabulary

语言学习

2024-04-01

6 分钟
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Learn how to cope if you are studying at an English-speaking university.

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  • Six minute vocabulary from bbclearningenglish.com.

  • hello and welcome to six minute vocabulary.

  • I'm Neil.

  • And I'm Finn.

  • Today's program is all about academic English.

  • If you are going to study or you are studying at an english speaking university, you might be wondering how youll cope with understanding lectures and academic texts and writing essays.

  • Yes, academic English is different to the english people speak and write every day.

  • Its more formal and uses higher level words.

  • So in todays program well give you ideas for understanding words and phrases that.

  • Youll come across and some advice for writing essays and giving presentations well also.

  • Give you tips for studying in English.

  • But first let's look at three main features of academic difficult english vocabulary specialist subject vocabulary and language for organising essays and presentations.

  • Now when you come across a word you don't know in an academic text or lecture, you can try to guess its meaning by looking at the context.

  • Or by seeing if the word looks like a word in your own language.

  • This is a particularly useful strategy if your own language has lots of words from greek or Latin, as many of the words used in academic English come from those languages.

  • Words, for example like microscopic, which means tiny, or analysis, which means study or.

  • Regeneration, which means renewal.

  • Another strategy for working out the meaning is to look at how a word is constructed.