Talking Science: Language and Learning in Science Classrooms

by Wolff-Michael Roth

Book Overview

This book is about the fundamental nature of talk in school science. Language as a formal system provides resources for conducting everyday affairs, including the doing of science. And while writing science is one aspect, talking science may in fact constitute a much more important means by which we navigate and know the world-the very medium through which we do science. In Talking Science Wolff-Michael Roth articulates a view of language that differs...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742537072
• ISBN13: 9780742537071
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 8.9"