Expanding Your Academic Vocabulary
Channel: UTM RGASC Academic Skills
Date: 2014-10-09

This is a video on Expanding your Academic Vocabulary from the University of Toronto Mississauga.

Link to our website: www.utm.utoronto.ca/asc 

In this video, you will be exposed to the difficulties many students face when making the transition from conversational language to academic language.  There are a few key things to remember when thinking about expanding your academic vocabulary. This video will attempt to highlight these aspects.

Transcript for this video available on our website.

Other useful resources in vocabulary learning are:
The Academic Word List (AWL):
http://www.englishvocabularyexercises.com/AWL

The Corpus of Contemporary American English
http://corpus.byu.edu/coca

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