Non-Verbal Devices in Pre-University Science: The Extent of Correspondence Between English and French  

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Lowe, Ivan

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: English for Specific Purposes (Full Text) vol. 15 no. 3 (1996), page 217-232.
Fulltext: 15_03_Lowe.pdf (841.63KB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/ESP/15 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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The symbols and other "non-verbal" devices of science are commonly assumed to be international. This assumption was tested for the French and English languages at the pre-university level of science. The setting was two pilot schools in Tunis, one of which taught an accelerated Tunisian curriculum in French, and the other taught an identical curriculum in English. The results were surprisingly unambiguous. There was total correspondence only for the symbols of the elements and the symbols for amino acids. Differences were found in the areas of numbers, the ways of writing equations, the indications of scale on graphs, symbols in chemistry, and the symbols for trigonometry. Some reasons for the differences are considered, along with a discussion of the factors influencing standardization, it is helpful for ESP teachers to know where constancy exists, and to be able to point out differences to students.

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