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Reporting Verbs
LANGUAGE FOCUS
Express your opinion.
Using the phrases created, make up your own examples of sentences.
Complete the sentences below. Choose no more than three words from the passage for each answer.
1. Lifelong learning is learning that is .. .
2. Mastering learning tools is .... .
3. Equipping people for the work is .. .
4. Developing ability to discover other people and cultures is learning .
5. Education contributing to personal development is ... .
6. Lifelong learning can instill .
7. Among the important things is developing the learner's ability .
8. The concept of lifelong learning has . .
VOCABULARY
1 Make up the phrases from the words in two boxes.
| resilience, underpin, instill, inclusion, holistic, negotiate, foster, pillar, pursue, post-compulsory | |
| community capability, conflicts, economic, education, view, the concept, social, educational, creativity, learning |
- To what extent do you agree or disagree with the ideas expressed in the text?
- What are the ways people can get education?
- In academic writing (and to a lesser extent, academic speaking) it will often be necessary to refer to the research of others and to report on their findings. In order to do so, we have to use reporting verbs such as Evans (1994) suggeststhat....; Brown (2001) argues that....
- The difficulty with using reporting verbs is that there are many different verbs, and each of them has slightly different, and often subtle shade of meaning. Using the correct words relies, as much as anything, on making the correct interpretation of what the writer you are studying is saying.
- In the table below, the main reporting verbs in English are classified in terms of their function, and their strength.
| Function and strength | Example verbs |
| NEUTRAL: verbs used to say what the writer describes in factual terms, demonstrates, refers to, and discusses, and verbs used to explain his/her methodology. | describe, show, reveal, study, demonstate, note, point out, indicate, report, observe, assume, take into consideration, examine, go on to say that, state, believe (unless this is a strong belief), mention, etc. |
| TENTATIVE: verbs used to say what the writer suggests or speculates on (without being absolutely certain). | suggest, speculate, intimate, hypothesise, moot, imply, propose, recommend, question the view that, postulate, etc. |
| STRONG: verbs used to say what the writer makes strong arguments and claims for. | argue, claim, emphasise, contend, maintain, assert, theorize, support the view that, deny, negate, refute, reject, challenge, strongly believe that, counter the view/argument that, etc. |
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