Teaching Life Sciences to English second language learners: what do teachers do?

South Africa has eleven official languages and legally learners receive tuition in their mother tongue until the end of Grade 3. From then on teachers are required to teach through the medium of English or Afrikaans. The implication is that the majority of learners in the senior secondary school pha...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Johanna G Ferreira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Education Association of South Africa 2011-01-01
Series:South African Journal of Education
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0256-01002011000100008