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http://dx.doi.org/10.5467/JKESS.2010.31.3.288

Preliminary Research about Semantic Relations and Linguistic Features in Middle School Students' Writings about Phase Transitions of Water in Air  

Jung, Eun-Sook (Department of Earth science Education, College of Education, Seoul National University)
Kim, Chan-Jong (Department of Earth science Education, College of Education, Seoul National University)
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Journal of the Korean earth science society / v.31, no.3, 2010 , pp. 288-299 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recently, scientific literacy means not only the acquisition of scientific knowledge but also the linguistic ability to participate in a scientific discourse community. Keeping this in mind, this study investigated middle school students' writings about phase transitions of water in air. Sixty seven students at 9th grade (age 15) students participated in this study and wrote two individual short texts. The result of text analysis can be summarized as follows: (1) students had problems with familiar scientific terms such as 'water vapor' and 'steam' as well as unfamiliar ones like 'dew point'. (2) Students described right semantic relations and at the same time wrong ones more in the idea formed from everyday experience than those from school instruction. (3) While students showed action and process centered writing in text about everyday phenomenon, they showed more preference for technical words and nouns in text about school science. This study suggest that students could develop linguistic ability of science from both spontaneous process based on experience and formal and theoretical learning; the former in forming various semantic relations, the latter in technical and abstract aspect of scientific writing.
Keywords
scientific literacy; scientific language; semantic relations; linguistic analysis;
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