Tuesday, March 3, 2015

From Spoken Language to Academic Writing


How to teach our Generation 1.5 and other ESL students to stop writing the way they talk for the academic world? At a recent teaching conference, our colleague Jorge Villalobos identified a smart way that focuses on modifying vocabulary, especially those ubiquitous qualifiers (e.g. basically, a lot, etc.), repeated words, and reporting verbs.

In the latest issue of a Cambridge newsletter, author Nigel Caplan offers another smart way: use more adjective clauses. His article can be accessed here.

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