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Teaching Life Sciences to English second language learners: what do teachers do?

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dc.creator Johanna G Ferreira
dc.date 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned 2015-07-20T22:18:15Z
dc.date.available 2015-07-20T22:18:15Z
dc.identifier 0256-0100
dc.identifier 2076-3433
dc.identifier https://doaj.org/article/c0e16027e74a4d6dab3d27552eab4128
dc.identifier.uri http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/19343
dc.description South Africa has eleven official languages and legally learners receive tuition in their mother tongue until the end of Grade 3. From then on teachers are required to teach through the medium of English or Afrikaans. The implication is that the majority of learners in the senior secondary school phase study Life Sciences in their second language, which is English. This has a major effect on the performance of learners in Life Sciences. A review was done of possible strategies teachers could use to assist English second language learners. Focus group interviews were held with Life Science teachers in an attempt to determine what the impact of teaching Life Sciences to English second language learners is and what teachers can do to assist English second language learners master concepts and terminology. The findings and recommendations of this research are reported here.
dc.language English
dc.publisher Education Association of South Africa (EASA)
dc.relation http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0256-01002011000100008
dc.relation https://doaj.org/toc/0256-0100
dc.relation https://doaj.org/toc/2076-3433
dc.source South African Journal of Education, Vol 31, Iss 1, Pp 102-113 (2011)
dc.subject analogies
dc.subject code switching
dc.subject English second language learners
dc.subject Life Sciences teaching
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject DOAJ:Education
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject DOAJ:Education
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.title Teaching Life Sciences to English second language learners: what do teachers do?
dc.type article


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