Academic or professional language is different from everyday language. That is one of the reasons why students come to school to learn, both orally and in written form.
At a recent San Diego regional CATESOL conference, Dr. Kate Kinsella gave a keynote speech to emphasize the necessity of facilitating students' academic interactions, starting with us teachers modeling professional vocabulary and providing language frames for them to emulate. This recent publication of hers in the Language magazine, though geared towards K-12 educators, describes tasks that may have a very relevant classroom impact for us.
As well, for one's writing skills to be college ready, we need to expand students' command of precise vocabulary, adjective clauses, and nominalization, among other items.
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