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    A PRIMER on ACADEMIC LANGUAGE for r t Te a c h e r s

    Academic language

    is the set of words,grammar, and

    organizational

    strategies used to

    describe complex ideas, higher order thinking

    processes, and abstract concepts.From J. Zwiers, Building Academic Language1

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