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Title: Specialist language style and supposedly adept monolingual science students
Author/Creator: O'Toole, J. Mitchell; O'Toole, Gjyn
Institution: The University of Newcastle. Faculty of Education & Arts, School of Education
Description: Secondary school science curricula are becoming increasingly conscious of communication issues in mainstream classes. However, the perception that ‘language difficulties’ are confined to minority students remains widespread among science teachers. This paper reports the results of a number of investigations into the impact of the specialist style of scientific English on mainstream science classes made up of monolingual speakers of the locally standard dialect of English. Communication difficulties in specialist contexts do not appear to be restricted to ‘minority groups’.
Relation: International Journal of Learning Vol. 9, p. 1201-1214
Relation: http://ijl.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.30/prod.9.93
Date: 2004
Publisher: Common Ground
Keyword(s): science; secondary school; language difficulties
Resource Type: journal article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/34792
Identifier: ISSN:1447-9494

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