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Publication details [#56310]

Koole, Tom. 2012. The epistemics of student problems: Explaining mathematics in a multi-lingual class. Journal of Pragmatics 44 (13) : 1902–1916.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

classroom conversation | comprehensibility | knowledge | language of instruction | mathematics

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This paper discusses how teachers in multilingual classrooms almost always incorrectly define students's problems with mathematics comprehension as a scientific (knowledge) problem, not as a language/text comprehension problem.