What Is Academic Vocabulary

By J. Baumann, Michael F. Graves. 2010

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Words as Tools: Learning Academic Vocabulary as Language Acquisition (2012, background): “Scholarship on academic language has yielded varying deﬁni-tions; two recent syntheses of academic language and academic vocabulary (Baumann & Graves, 2010; Snow & Uccelli, 2009) highlighted the many explanations that have emerged.”
Paucity and Disparity in Kindergarten Oral Vocabulary Instruction (2014, background): “However, as children enter school, there is a particular concern that they learn the academic vocabulary that is necessary for comprehension of school texts and participation in academic conversations across the content areas (Baumann & Graves, 2010; Snow & Uccelli, 2009).”
The Influence of Mathematics Vocabulary Instruction Embedded Within Addition Tutoring for First-Grade Students With Mathematics Difficulty (2015, background): “Selection of vocabulary is important, and Baumann and Graves (2010) suggested teachers focus on general and domain-specific vocabulary as well as vocabulary related to interpretation of mathematics symbols.”
An Investigation of the Mathematics-Vocabulary Knowledge of First-Grade Students (2017, background): “Baumann and Graves (2010) explained that academic vocabulary is either domain specific, with vocabulary specific to one mathematical concept or procedure, or general, with vocabulary that changes meaning across content areas. Specific to mathematics and with more detail, Monroe and Panchyshyn (1995)”