Importance of General Academic Vocabulary in Improving Writing Skills for Higher Secondary Students

Sep 28, 2026

Vocabulary plays a major role in English language teaching and supports four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. General academic vocabulary is described as high-frequency words that appear regularly in written texts across subjects, while being less common in everyday conversation. The study highlights practical writing-focused approaches for higher secondary students, including letter, paragraph, dialogue, essay, precise writing, and note-making. Results emphasize general academic vocabulary as a key tool for improving academic-level writing.

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Importance of General Academic Vocabulary in Improving Writing Skills for Higher Secondary Students M Pravena1*, Dr.V.K.Saravanan2 ¹ *PhD Research Scholar, Department of English, Annamalai University, Chidambaram 608002, Tamil Nadu, India ²Research Supervisor, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Annamalai University, Chidambaram 608002, Tamil Nadu, India Abstract Vocabulary plays a major role in English language teaching. It is the important tool to acquire four language skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. General academic vocabulary is referred as high frequency words that are appears regularly in written text across the multiple subjects but not frequently used in conversational language. Language learners must be familiar with the academic words because of their academic purposes. Writing skills are the kind of skills used to communicate human thoughts and ideas in various written forms. The research points out some basic ways to improve writing skills of higher secondary students based on their writing practices in school: letter writing, paragraph writing, dialogue writing, essay writing, precise writing, developing hints, road map, describe the picture and note making, listing the vocabularies repeatedly used in writing skills in school level of writing. The results of the research find out general academic vocabulary as one of the important tool to improving higher secondary students writing skills in academic level. Keywords: General Academic Vocabulary, Secondary Students, Writing Skills, ESL Learners, Importance of Vocabulary. Introduction The aim of the study is to show how general academic vocabulary is important when the higher secondary students are going to improve their writing skills. Vocabulary plays a major role in English language teaching, without vocabulary there is no way to sharing our ideas and communicate with others. Vocabulary is an important tool to acquire four language skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. Academic vocabulary refers to list of words that are used in academic context. That words are used in academic dialogues and textbooks but they do not appear in day to day conversation. Academic vocabulary is divided into two types there are general academic vocabulary and technical academic vocabulary. General academic vocabulary is referred as high frequency words appearing regularly in written text across the multiple subjects but not frequently used in conversational language. General academic vocabulary is a list of words that are commonly used in academic context. Some words are more general but some general academic vocabulary has a particular style of tone in writing and speaking, and shows in its formal and academic writing. For example the phrases “aims ofthis report is to….” In this phrase “aims” and “report” are general academic vocabulary words. The words used in academic context are also known the academic transition words. The general academic vocabulary is a list of words that are having meaning of both in general and academic context too. The words like general and control the words meaning in: 1.Discipline: General meaning: train the people to obey Academic meaning: its means a subject of study, another word is 2.Control: General meaning: power of something or somebody, Academic meaning: the group used in an experiment to test results. All the students especially English language learners get risk to acquire the four language skills and understand to instruction from others, general academic vocabulary fulfils their needs for this kind of acquisitions. Writing skills are the kind of skills to use to write effective and brief manner. The research points out the major writings skills of higher secondary students are letter writing, paragraph writing, dialogue writing, and essay writing, precise writing, developing hints, note making, road map, and describe the picture. The research reveals importance of general academ

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What is general academic vocabulary in this study?

General academic vocabulary refers to high-frequency words that appear regularly in written texts across multiple subjects but are not frequently used in conversational language.

Why is vocabulary important for improving writing skills?

Vocabulary is described as the key tool for acquiring listening, speaking, reading, and writing, and it helps learners write in effective and academically appropriate ways.

Which writing practice areas does the research mention for higher secondary students?

The study mentions letter writing, paragraph writing, dialogue writing, essay writing, precise writing, developing hints, road map, describing pictures, and note making.

Sep 28, 2026

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