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Publication details [#66533]

McKinney, Carolyn and Robin Tyler. 2019. Disinventing and reconstituting language for learning in school Science. Language & Education 33 (2) : 141–158.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
high school | ideology | language | language for special purposes | pedagogy | scientific language | semiotics
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Journal WWW
www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This paper displays how pedagogical translanguaging and trans-semiotising can be taken up as strategies of disinvention and reconstitution of ‘language’ for learning Science. Data stem from bilingual isiXhosa/English students in Year 9 Science learning in a South African high school.