Language in Science Amanda Gay [email protected] www.lambetheal.com Chomsky Vygotsky Piaget Aitchison Krashen Halliday and Martin Gibbons Hillary Hester Cummins The theories “The point at which you stop thinking about what people are saying and think about how they are saying it. That’s the point at which you are fluent” Ann Horton The Teacher 40 35 35 32 30 Number of responses 25 20 20 15 15 13 10 5 19 7 6 4 2 1 4 3 2 0 How pupils remembered learning English The most common response was to mention talking – to friends, at school, in the playground, at home and in the wider community. A general feeling of learning English at school came next, however this again did not necessarily mean formal lessons. Only 25% of the cohort cited special English lessons and support teachers as part of their introduction to English. Listening was also noted by many pupils – listening to songs, the radio, television and films as well as to friends and teachers. Clearly schools in which speaking and listening activities are thoughtfully planned will be helping pupils still acquiring English. Reading, both for pleasure and to reference new vocabulary was noted by about 33% of the group. All the readers were very keen. How pupils remembered learning The Doctor The University English Teacher The Science Students The Professor The Science Teacher Language needed to succeed at A level • • • • Read widely Listen to and watch science programmes Bring in skills learnt in other subjects Communication is key The advice determiner name fluffy adjectives classifying adjectives active voice passive voice first person no subject action process opinion overview Moving from everyday to erudite gas excitations produce a signature line emission spectrum for an element http://www.webexhibits.org/ that the nichrome wire loop chemical powder potassium chloride we got was placed started to boil evaporation some of them had an orangey flame and one was purple the differently coloured flames produced may be used to identify different metal ions Moving from everyday to erudite • Provide frequent opportunities to hear and speak more formal and abstract patterns of English • Listen to and watch science programmes • Practise presentation skills/debates • Encourage multimedia – make films • Analyse /deconstruct a range of science texts • Model construction of texts (and exam papers) • Incorporate collaborative tasks involving language In –class strategies • • • • • Loop games Dictagloss Sentence builders Sorting activities Nominalisation The DARTS http://www.rsc.org/periodic-table Dictagloss Corals may resemble beautiful marine plants, but, explains Dr Brian Roy Rosen, they are stinging walls of death for small organisms How to categorise corals has teased enquiring minds for thousands of years. They have stony, mineral skeletons of calcium carbonate, in effect limestone, and are technically animals. But underwater they resemble shrubs or even flowers, and the cells of many species contain algal symbionts, which make them dependent on light, like plants. This is why they grow in elaborate plant-like shapes to maximise light capture. Coral reefs are home to almost a quarter of all living marine species, and more than 500 million people depend on them for food, coastal protection and tourism. Yet global warming, pollution, overfishing and possibly ocean acidification are killing coral reefs. One in four of the world's coral reefs are dead and many more are threatened. The Biologist Vol 62(3) p12-15 It's easy to forget that plants can catch prey too. Dan Rowson looks at the weird and wonderful ways different plants of the genus Nepenthes get their fill The Biologist 62(2) p12-14 Last year, a new species of carnivorous plant was discovered – not in the humid, verdant depths of a tropical rainforest, but in a glasshouse in London. Disguised under an incorrect label, the plant had been quietly catching cockroaches at Kew Gardens for almost a decade before being uncovered as an entirely new species. Flaunting its new name of Nepenthes zygon, the plant now has its own spotlight within the charismatic and diverse Nepenthes genus. New species of Nepenthes are still being discovered at a surprising rate, but most are severely threatened in the wild as agriculture and mining destroy their natural habitat. The passive Independent writing Draw on previous experience Collaborative writing Model text construction Learning through talk Deconstruct texts The LiLAC approach www.unlockingtheworld.com • https://thebiologist.societyofbiology.org/biologist/158biologist/features/1231-caught-in-a-trap • Royal Society of Chemistry http://www.rsc.org/learnchemistry/resources/chemistry-in-your-cupboard/ The Web
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