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Originally Posted by Tdol  At the end of the day, it's basically one of those things.  |
I am afraid it is one of the issues which haven't been dealt with systematically. Some Cambridge Certificate books like CAE have realised the problem and do encourage teachers to find out how specific students' vocabulary is. In addition it raises students' awareness to make their texts more interesting. Words like: nice, good, bad, great are consciously avoided and more specific vocabulary is put on a scale of varying degrees like adverbs of frequency. Just imagine you read a text by a writer who uses only general vocabulary I am sure you'll be bored to tears.