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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"The language of Science"”.
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Unmasking The Language Of Science Through Textual Analyses On Biomedical Preprints And Published Papers
Scientific communication is essential for science as it enables the field to grow. This task is often accomplished through a written form such as preprints and published papers. We can obtain a high-level understanding of science and how scientific trends adapt over time by analyzing these …
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Vocabulary Instruction Within Science Classrooms
The vocabulary demands of secondary science classrooms has been well documented. As the language of science is complex and specific to the content area or the particular discipline, instruction on science vocabulary must take place. Vocabulary instruction can be categorized as explicit or embedded …
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Semantische und lexikalische Aspekte der mathematischen Fachsprache des 19. Jahrhunderts
Taking number-theoretic and algebraic texts as examples, the development of the scientific language of mathematics is examined from a lexical and semantic perspective. The focus is on the modelling of scientific concept formation, the analysis of the forms and functions of metaphors and analogies, …
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The impact of teacher and peer dialogue on online collaborative writing in an authentic science literacy learning environment
This research is concerned with authentic science writing, and in particular, investigating collaborative science writing at secondary school level, using an online collaborative-writing environment. Specifically, it investigates how measures of successful authenticity relate to (i) how close to …
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Science as a Second Language: Analysis of Emergent Bilingual Performance and the Impact of English Language Proficiency and First Language Characteristics on the Colorado Measures of Academic Success for Science
… is highly important and states across the nation, including Colorado, have adopted Common Core State Standards, the need for academic language is even more important than ever. The language of science has been compared to a second language in that it uses specific discourse patterns, …
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The confluence of rhetoric and science: A rhetorical enquiry of climate change publications in Namibia
The thesis explored the dynamics of the rhetoric of the language of science on climate change publications. The arguments presented in this study were drawn from a theoretical framework that saw rhetorical arguments, texts and general discourse as instruments of communication of science …
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Using the Practices of Science in Elementary Schoolyard Inquiry Investigations
The goal of this study was to explore how elementary students engage with and make sense of the practices of science when involved in authentic scientific investigations guided by student-generated questions. Since communication and collaborative work are inherent in the practice of science, the …
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Civilized people in uncivilized places : rubber, race, and civilization during the Amazonian rubber boom
Imperial Europe’s relationship with the tropical world was characterized by intrigue and fascination combined with a fear of difference. This combined intrigue and fear developed over time into a set of stereotypes and myths about the tropics, which by the 19th century had solidified into a …
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Light Beyond Modernity's Long Shadow: Social and Medical Science in the Making of the 'State' of Guatemala, 1871-1900
The present investigation situates late-nineteenth-century Guatemala’s nation-state building project in a broad nexus of Atlantic-World intellectual, medical, and political movements fusing the art of governance to the sciences of nature and humankind; and statesmen, to the ideas, understandings, …
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Η (ανα)συγκρότηση της επιστημονικής γνώσης στο σχολείο : κοινωνιογλωσσολογική ανάλυση εκπαιδευτικών πρακτικών
… επίσημο λόγο των σχολικών εγχειριδίων (ενδ. Coffin, 2006∙ Halliday, 2004α, 2004β, 2004γ∙ Halliday & Martin, 2004∙ Martin, 2004α, 2004β, 2004γ∙ Schleppegrell, 2004). Οι έρευνες που σύμφωνα με το υπόδειγμα της ΣΛΓ μελετούν τον εκπαιδευτικό λόγο στις διαφορετικές βαθμίδες του ελληνικού σχολείου, …