Lexical knowledge and mathematics education in science and technology in Papua New Guinea

Autor:	Marion Gilmour, Stewart Marshall, Don Lewis
Rok vydání:	1992
Předmět:	Applied Mathematics media_common.quotation_subject New guinea Education Comprehension Poor reading Mathematics (miscellaneous) Reading (process) ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION Mathematics education Lexical knowledge Second language learners Tertiary level media_common
Zdroj:	International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology. 23:211-218
ISSN:	1464-5211 0020-739X
DOI:	10.1080/0020739920230205
Popis:	For mathematics students in schools and universities in Papua New Guinea, English is usually a second (or third or fourth) language. Often, the difficulties that these students have with mathematical questions arise not because they have problems with the required mathematical operations but because they have problems with reading English. This seems to be the case even at tertiary level. Research on other second language learners seems to show that inadequate lexical knowledge is very often the origin of poor reading comprehension. This paper describes some of the results of an investigation of students’ comprehension of sub‐technical words used in science classes in Papua New Guinea. For many of the mathematical words the results showed that students lacked the required comprehension and often confused the words with others.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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