Acquiring the mathematics register in classrooms

Authors
Abstract

This article describes how a teacher in a high school classroom facilitated her students' acquisition and use of the specialist language of mathematics. Using ideas from second language acquisition, the teacher's strategies for language development are grouped into four stages. This paper suggests that for students to become fluent producers and interpreters of the mathematics register there must be opportunities for them to use the language at all four stages.

Downloads
Citation
Meaney, T. (2006). Acquiring the mathematics register in classrooms. Set: Research Information for Teachers, 3, 39–43. https://doi.org/10.18296/set.0599
Purchase the full text download for this article or subscribe
NZ$25.00