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Enhancing Vocabulary Teaching Through Lexical Cohesion Chains

Explore the practical perspective of lexical cohesion in teaching vocabulary, discourse markers, synonyms, and super-ordinates to improve language proficiency. Learn how to use lexical variety and cohesion chains effectively for better comprehension and readability. Discover the nuances of academic register and understanding diverse lexical complexities.

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Enhancing Vocabulary Teaching Through Lexical Cohesion Chains

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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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