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The content introduces key academic word categories—general academic vocabulary, discipline-specific terms, and sub-technical vocab—using a speech therapy journal extract about children with cleft palate. It explains how to identify topic understanding without grasping every term, distinguish discipline-specific meanings, and recognize general academic words via the Academic Word List (AWL) and vocabulary profiling.","Building your vocabulary  \nThis video will introduce you to university vocabulary, or vocab for short. As a student, you will encounter a wide range of new vocab at university. To best manage your studies, you need to develop your knowledge of:  \n• general academic vocab  \n• discipline specific vocab and  \n• sub-technical vocab.  \nSome students feel a little overwhelmed by new vocab when they begin attending lectures and doing the readings for their units. However, you can learn to manage the load if you understand the types of vocab used in academic communication. Let’s look at an example.  \nImagine you are a new Speech Therapy student. Pause here and read this extract from a journal article from your new discipline.  \nDon’t try to understand everything. Just answer this question: What is the topic of the paragraph?  \nAs children with cleft palate acquire more complex speech, issues may become increasingly noticeable. Speech issues in children with cleft palate can be caused by a variety of factors. Velopharyngeal dysfunction, including both obligatory (i.e., velopharyngeal insufficiency) and learned (i.e., velopharyngeal mislearning) domains, can result in hypernasality, weak pressure consonants, and/or nasal air emission   It is estimated that up to 37% of children with a repaired cleft palate acquire velopharyngeal insufficiency after the initial palate repair, resulting in speech that is difficult to understand (Bicknell et al., 2002; Lithovius et al., 2014) .  \nKotlarek, K. J., & Krueger, B. I. (2023) . Treatment of speech sound errors in cleft palate: A tutorial for speech-language pathology assistants. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1-18. [https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_lshss-22-00071](https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_lshss-22-00071)  \nNow, you may not have understood everything in the extract, but you probably got the basics.  \nYou probably understood that the general topic is children with cleft palate, even if you are not entirely sure what a cleft palate is. You may have understood that the focus is on speech issues caused by some factors connected to cleft palate, even if you didn’t understand what those factors were. You may also have understood that repairs aren’t always successful. So, even if a text has quite a few unknown words, you can probably get the general gist or main message.  \nLet’s look at this extract again. Pause here. Decide which words seem to be discipline specific. That is, words specific to the field of speech therapy. Okay. You may have noticed these words:  \ncleft palate velopharyngeal or hypernasality  \nThese are discipline specific words: that is, they are terms that have a specific meaning in an academic discipline and are not usually used by other disciplines. For instance, you are unlikely to see these words in a Marketing or Engineering textbook.  \nOther words you may have thought were discipline-specific could be:  \ndysfunction obligatory  \nweak pressure consonant nasal air emission insufficiency  \nIn fact, these words are not exclusive to Speech Therapy, even if the way they are used is different to other contexts. We can call these words: sub-technical vocab. That is, they are words that have a general meaning, but they also have a specific meaning in a discipline. In addition, they may be used in other disciplines, but have another meaning in that discipline.  \nYou may notice that Velopharyngeal is used with dysfunction, insufficiency and mislearning. This tells you that there are different types of velopharyngeal issues. Maybe you can use your knowledge of the more common words to infer what these issues could be. The fact is: Each discipline not only has its own vocabulary, it may also use more common words in its own way.  \nBoth discipline specific and sub technical vocabulary are important. They make communication easier and more precise for members of the discipline. 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