disciplinary literacy
noun1
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, page 1: