Advanced literacy

Purpose: To analyze how the acquisition of vocabulary helps the reading and writing processes.
Thesis: Specific vocabulary for academic purposes, through reading as well as writing should be taught.
Audience: Advanced literacy communities. English for academic purposes teachers and students.
I. Academic Vocabulary
A. The Research-Process Vocabulary
1. Nouns, verbs in context
B. Vocabulary of Analysis
1. High frequency verbs to present information
C. Vocabulary of Evaluation
1. Adjectives and adverbs in critiques, reviews and reports.
II. Core Vocabulary
A. Main difficulty
1. Previous Knowledge
B. Solution
2. L1 Schemata Activation
a. Brainstorming
b. Debating
III. Reading Strategies
A. Language Acquisition
B. Language Study
1. Vocabulary Analysis
2. Grammar
3. Sentence Construction
4. Paragraph Construction
5. Text Construction
C. Interest Introduction
1. Discussion Stimulus
2. Creative and Imaginative Response
3. General Knowledge Construction
IV. Academic Texts
A. Advanced Literacy
B. Meaningful writing
C. Reading Capacities
D. Target Community Overall

Reference
Pintos, V. (2008) Unit 1: Building up a community of teachers and prospective researchers. Universidad CAECE: Buenos Aires, Argentina.