Teaching Academic Vocabulary to Adolescents With Learning Disabilities.
The article discusses the academic vocabulary teachings for learning disabled teenagers in the U.S. Topics discussed include improved academic achievements of students by necessary explicit vocabulary instructions, general academic vocabulary and domain-specific vocabulary being two main types of academic vocabulary used by students, and characterization of words and student-friendly language with robust vocabulary instruction to be used by teachers for the learning disabled students.
Academic vocabulary is one of five
critical areas of reading instruction for
adolescents linked to a wide array of
academic outcomes (Roberts et al.,
2008). Since struggling readers and
students with LD tend to avoid reading
and are less likely to glean word