Explicit Teaching of Academic Vocabulary in EFL: Preparing Icelandic students for education at university level

• Main Author: María Pétursdóttir 1973-
• Other Authors: Háskóli Íslands
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Enska; Enskukennsla; Framhaldsskólanemar; Orðaforði; Tungumálakennsla; Awl; Iceland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1946/16397

The focus of this study was to develop a program to teach academic vocabulary to upper-secondary students of English in Iceland, and to evaluate the success of the material used. The academic words targeted were chosen from the Academic Word List (Coxhead, 2000). Knowledge of the lexis was measured...