Sustainable language support practices in science education technologies and solutions /

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Zhang, Felicia.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), 2011.
• Subjects: Science > Study and teaching (Higher); Science > Terminology.; Language and education.; Science > Case studies. > Study and teaching (Higher) > Australia; Academic predictors; Computer-enhanced language acquisition; Concepts inventory; Experience based learning; Instructional design; Language focused and career oriented interventions; Open and distance learning; Scientific method instruction; Symbolic language; Tertiary education
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"This book presents cases on the results of a study done in Australia on first-year university students and the impact of new techniques of language acquisition on science education"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

• 1. Language problems of first year science students / Felicia Zhang
• 2. Language support strategies in first year chemistry / Adam James Bridgeman
• 3. First year chemistry language support at the University of Tasmania / Brian Francis Yates and Michael Guy Gardiner
• 4. Language focus for genetics and molecular biology students / Brett Andrew Lidbury
• 5. Evaluating a genetics concept inventory / Felicia Zhang and Brett Andrew Lidbury
• 6. Language support for first year human physiology and biology / Karen Elizabeth Mate, John Cameron Rodger and Brett Andrew Lidbury
• 7. The benefits of teaching students the language of physics / Jurgen Schulte
• 8. Clickers in a first statistics course / Alice Marion Richardson
• 9. A successful collaboration between language arts and science / Felicia Zhang.