Students’ language use when talking about the evolution of life - negotiating the meaning of key terms and their semantic relationships
In this paper, we explore an idea from Vygotsky about the meaning and sense of words, and how it manifests itself in students’ talk. This is done by analysing the discussions of 15-year old Swedish students participating in teaching activities concerning biological evolution. It turned out that the...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | Danish |
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University of Oslo
2012-12-01
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Series: | Nordina: Nordic Studies in Science Education |
Online Access: | https://journals.uio.no/nordina/article/view/272 |