CPD: Academic Language vs. Social Language

It is mainly used in classroom for reading and writing

• Social Language

• Academic Language

Acquisition requires understanding of cultural and social norms, including nonverbal cues

• Social Language

• Academic Language

More cognitive demand due to complex vocabulary and grammatical structures

• Social language

• Academic language

It takes three to five years to develop proficiency.

• Social language

• Academic language

It takes a minimum of four to seven years to develop proficiency.

• SocialLanguage

• Academic Language

Describing a classic work of art requires ________

• academic language

• social language

Reading a lunch menu, one needs _____

• academic language

• social language

To text a friend, you use ______

• social language

• academic language

Comparing and contrasting two opposing parties in a historical dispute requires ___

• academic language

• social language

Summarizing information in a research paper requires ___

• academic language

• social language