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Teaching Vocabulary and Language Features

Self-paced
3 credits

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In this course, participants will build knowledge and understanding of:

  • The difference between social and academic language
  • Tier 1, 2, and 3 words
  • Cognates and false cognates
  • Distinguishing words/phrases to target
  • Recognizing required language features
  • Strategies for pre-teaching academic vocabulary and language features, and
  • Activities for reinforcing and methods for assessing academic vocabulary and language features

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