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Making words work together

Making words work together. v ocabulary teaching and lexical cohesion. Julie Moore. St Andrews - February, 2017. @ lexicojules. Lexical cohesion. a practical perspective. d iscourse markers synonyms s uper-ordinates. Discourse markers. range appropriate usage less obvious functions.

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Making words work together

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  1. Making words work together vocabulary teaching and lexical cohesion Julie Moore St Andrews - February, 2017 @lexicojules

  2. Lexical cohesion a practical perspective discourse markers synonyms super-ordinates Professional Development

  3. Discourse markers range appropriate usage less obvious functions Professional Development

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  6. Lexical cohesion chains of meaning “low-rated papers rely more heavily on lexical repetition” “frequent repetition of lexical items does not necessarily increase readability” Witte & Faigley (1981) Professional Development

  7. Synonyms range academic register understanding differences difficult complex complicated tricky confusing hard tough challenging demanding adverse problematic Professional Development

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  10. Super-ordinates & general words Professional Development

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  13. Teaching lexical cohesion The takeaways Productive range Noticing Nuts & bolts vocabulary Professional Development

  14. Any questions? lexicoblog.blogspot.com @lexicojules @ELTjuleswords Professional Development

  15. References Oxford Academic Vocabulary Practice (OUP, 2017) Lower-intermediate B1 Upper-intermediate B2-C1 Durrant, P. (2016) To what extent is the Academic Vocabulary List relevant to university student writing? English for Specific Purposes 43 Flowerdew, J. (2006) Use of signalling nouns in a learner corpus International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 11(3) Halliday, M.A.K. & Hasan, R. (1976) Cohesion in English. Harlow: Longman Witte, S.P. & Faigley, L. (1981) Coherence, Cohesion, and Writing Quality College Composition & Communication 32 (2) Professional Development

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