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Language, literacy, and learning in STEM education : research methods and perspectives from applied linguistics /
There is increasing pressure for STEM education to reform in the direction of student-centered learning approaches, active learning, interdisciplinarity, and data-driven evaluations and assessments of student learning. These requirements derive from the need for STEM education to facilitate economic...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2014]
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| Colección: | Language studies, science and engineering.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Language, Literacy, and Learning in STEM Education; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; List of figures; List of tables; Contributor biographies; Book Series Preface; Integrating applied linguistics and literacies with STEM education; Introduction; Integrating applied linguistics and literacies with STEM education; Book structure and chapter summaries; References; Part I. Research studies in science; Drawing upon applied linguistics to attain goals in an interdisciplinary chemistry-applied linguistics project; Introduction; Background.
- Contributions of applied linguistics subfields to the write like a chemist projectEnglish for Specific Purposes; Discourse analysis and corpus linguistics; Language teaching pedagogy; Implications for other STEM areas; Acknowledgments; References; A genre analysis of student microbiologylaboratory notebooks; The laboratory notebook; Educational studies of laboratory notebooks; Methodology; Results; Characterizing the genre of microbiology laboratory notebooks:Conclusions and implications; References; Writing and becoming a scientist; Introduction; Context and methods; Participants.
- Data collectionData analysis; Case 1: April
- Tentative steps toward the future; Case 2: Carla
- A teacher emerges; Case 3: Nedra
- Timing is everything; Conclusions, implications, and limitations; References; Appendix; Examples of Coded Interview Excerpts; Part II. Research studies in engineering; Writing as social practice in engineering; Introduction; Writing as social practice; Disciplinary epistemology, ideologies and writing in engineering; Research methodology; Aims, context, and participants in the study; Data collection and collaboration.
- Toward a nuanced understanding of writing as social practice in engineeringConclusion; References; Graphics and invention in academic engineers' writing for publication; Introduction; Theoretical framework: Engineering writing as multimodal social practice; Research on writing for publication in science and engineering; Methodology of the larger study; Study setting and participants; Findings: Graphics as invention in writing for publication; Text history: Launching a research article; Discussion and implications; References; Part III. Research studies in mathematics.
- Mathematics education, cultural practices, and communicationIntroduction; Mathematical communication and students' cultural contexts; Research methodology; Mathematical communication grounded in students' experiences as a way to learn mathematics; Discussion; References; Learning while teaching; Introduction; Teacher listening and classroom language patterns; Theoretical framework; Research design; Participants and their curriculum units; Data collection; Data analysis; Curriculum materials; Analysis of classroom episodes; Evaluative listening; Interpretive listening.