The Academic Language Used in Scientific Research

Abstract

Academic language is substantially more formal, nuanced, and sophisticated than informal spoken language used outside of the classroom. Academic language takes centre stage in curriculum development and implementation. Academic language is the language required by students to appreciate and communicate in the academic setting; and it follows a set of principles that are precise, formal, and scientific, as well as objective and analytical in nature. Academic language is more concerned with terminology, norms and genres. The instruction and learning of academic language entails more than just studying a range of linguistic features. English has been used to produce scientific papers that discuss tense choice, clarity, preciseness, style, assortment of sentence, diction, and other features of language utilised in scientific writing.