Features of Academic Vocabulary

If you want to do more with vocabulary than understand it in a reading text, then it is important to understand and study not just the meaning but other aspects such as frequency, pronunciation, spelling, part of speech, word family, register, usage and collocation. This video looks at each of these features, with a detailed example for the academic word ’conclusion’. ▬ Contents of this video ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 00:00 Intro 00:47 Meaning 01:52 Frequency 03:49 Pronunciation 04:38 Spelling 05:29 Word form 05:48 Word family 07:18 Register 08:20 Usage 08:53 Collocation 09:38 Example: Conclusion 12:19 Summary ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬