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Publication details [#60649]

Chan, Simon. 2015. Linguistic challenges in the mathematical register for EFL learners: linguistic and multimodal strategies to help learners tackle mathematics word problems. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 18 (3) : 306–318.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

classroom conversation | foreign language acquisition | language use | mathematics

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

In learning mathematics via English, one of the main dares met by English as a Foreign Language learners is grasping the language employed to submit word problems in mathematics texts. Particular linguistic and multimodal tactics and a co-operation between mathematics and English language teachers are proposed to assist EFL learners in surpassing such defiances.