1. Making words work together
vocabulary teaching and lexical cohesion
Julie Moore
St Andrews - February, 2017
@lexicojules

2. a practical perspective
Lexical cohesion
a practical perspective
discourse markers
synonyms
super-ordinates
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3. Discourse markers range appropriate usage less obvious functions
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6. “low-rated papers rely more heavily on lexical repetition”
Lexical cohesion
chains of meaning
“low-rated papers rely more heavily on lexical repetition”
“frequent repetition of lexical items does not necessarily increase readability”
Witte & Faigley (1981)
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7. Synonyms difficult complex range complicated tricky academic register
confusing
hard
tough
challenging
demanding
adverse
problematic
range
academic register
understanding differences
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10. Super-ordinates & general words
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13. Teaching lexical cohesion
The takeaways
Productive range
Noticing
Nuts & bolts vocabulary
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14. Any questions? lexicoblog.blogspot.com @lexicojules @ELTjuleswords
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15. References Oxford Academic Vocabulary Practice (OUP, 2017)
Lower-intermediate B1
Upper-intermediate B2-C1
Durrant, P. (2016) To what extent is the Academic Vocabulary List relevant to university student writing? English for Specific Purposes 43
Flowerdew, J. (2006) Use of signalling nouns in a learner corpus International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 11(3)
Halliday, M.A.K. & Hasan, R. (1976) Cohesion in English. Harlow: Longman
Witte, S.P. & Faigley, L. (1981) Coherence, Cohesion, and Writing Quality College Composition & Communication 32 (2)
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