A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Language Support for First Year Students in the Science Disciplines : Final Report.

Final report from a project that addressed the language needs of a diverse student body by investigating and testing strategic approaches to learning and teaching in first year sciences. It was concerned with the acquisition of language specific to science and the implicit teaching of meta-cognitive...

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Institutions:	University of Canberra University of Sydney University of Technology, Sydney University of Tasmania University of Newcastle
Main Authors:	Zhang, Felicia, Lidbury, Brett, Schulte, Jurgen, Bridgeman, Adam, Yates, Brian, Rodger, John
Published:	Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) 2011
Subjects:	First year students Interdisciplinary approach Language acquisition Language skills Science education Science teaching University science Vocabulary Higher education First year science Science discourse and terminology Australia
Online Access:	/resources/CG7_441_UC_Zhang_Report_2011.pdf