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disciplinary literacy

disciplinary literacy noun: the ability to comprehend, navigate, and use the linguistic styles and discourse practices of a variety of different scholarly disciplines.

Noun

disciplinary literacy (uncountable)

  1. The ability to comprehend, navigate, and use the linguistic styles and discourse practices of a variety of different scholarly disciplines.
    • Disciplinary literacy has been particularly impactful in secondary education, and shares much in common with English for Specific Purposes (ESP), where the focus has been more on tertiary education.2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Position vectors, homologous chromosomes and gamma rays: Promoting disciplinary literacy through Secondary Phrase Lists”, in English for Specific Purposes, →DOI...

Questions about disciplinary literacy

What does disciplinary literacy mean?
Disciplinary literacy means the ability to comprehend, navigate, and use the linguistic styles and discourse practices of a variety of different scholarly disciplines.
What part of speech is disciplinary literacy?
Disciplinary literacy is a noun.

Words near disciplinary literacy in the dictionary

  1. disciplinarity
  2. disciplinarium
  3. disciplinary
  4. disciplinary inquiries
  5. disciplinary inquiry
  6. disciplinary literacy
  7. disciplinary loaf
  8. disciplinate
  9. disciplinative
  10. disciplinatory
  11. discipline

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