He says that this change toward a more academic language was welcomed by many of the Maharishi's American students.

"You can't write poetry in that academic, dead language," she says.

From the 17th century, German became the preferred academic language.

Yet to write about it in anything less than the most formal academic language is bound to raise a reader's hackles.

In my view this is an evasion of the teacher's duty to enable pupils to get to grips with academic language.

The non-profit project promotes literacy and pre-reading skills for Native children to increase their understanding of standard academic language.

Much academic language is, in practice, obscure and verbose.

By implementing the intervention for 30-40 hours a week, children under age five can gain language, academic, and basic living skills while some may fully recover.

You'll have to couch your brilliant idea in academic language, produce a clear line of argument, and give plenty of evidence to back it up.

A sophisticated academic language for talking about the sociology of roles did not exist in the mid-19th century.