Teaching Science to Refugee Learners

Teaching science vocabulary

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Based on a small-scale study Australian researchers have produced materials designed to help science students for whom English is a second language

It is now quite common for classes to include children who have a limited command of the English language. This is not confined to the UK and a research team led by Jennifer Miller at Monash University, Australia, has investigated the problems these children face when confronted with specific and complex scientific terminology.

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