This paper highlights the importance of language to Science Education and argues that the acquisition of language competence is essential towards the understanding of science and how it works. It concludes that a data-driven scientific knowledge should be encouraged to improve learners' language ability. By language competence here, it is meant the ability to comprehend and use a given language in such a way that enables one to function in a specialized knowledge community.
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Reflections on Language Competence in Science Education
This paper highlights the importance of language to Science Education and argues that the acquisition of language competence is essential towards the understanding of science and how it work…