Harry Potter and the Prisoners of Vocabulary Instruction: Acquiring Academic Language at Hogwarts

Autor/in	McQuillan, Jeff
Titel	Harry Potter and the Prisoners of Vocabulary Instruction: Acquiring Academic Language at Hogwarts
Quelle	In: Reading in a Foreign Language, 32 (2020) 2, S.122-142 (21 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1539-0578
Schlagwörter	Childrens Literature; Teaching Methods; Novels; Vocabulary Development; Academic Language; Word Lists; Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; English (Second Language); Computational Linguistics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? 'Children''s literature'; Kinderliteratur; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Novel; Roman; Wortschatzarbeit; Academic; Language; Languages; Akademiker; Sprache; Wissenschaftssprache; Wortliste; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Linguistics; Computerlinguistik
Abstract	Several researchers have claimed that low-achieving students, especially second language students, need explicit academic vocabulary instruction to "catch up" with their age peers (e.g., Nagy & Townsend, 2012). Two possible paths to vocabulary growth -- free reading and explicit vocabulary instruction -- were compared in terms of their "efficiency" (Mason, 2007) in words acquired per minute by analyzing data from a large corpus (1.1 million words) of young-adult novels taken from the "Harry Potter" series (Rowling, 2016), and from seven large-scale academic vocabulary intervention studies. The "Harry Potter" novels contain 85% of all the words on the Academic Word List (AWL), which is thought to include the most important word families needed for success in school. Reading all seven "Harry Potter" novels is predicted to result in the acquisition of between one-fifth and one-half of these AWL words. This vocabulary gain is 1.6 to four times more efficient than what has been achieved so far through explicit instruction. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	National Foreign Language Resource Center at University of Hawaii. 1859 East-West Road #106, Honolulu, HI 96822. e-mail: readfl@hawaii.edu; Web site: https://nflrc.hawaii.edu/rfl/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01