The Language of Science
I was recently reading the November/December 2021 issue of \u201cScience & Children\u201d a publication of the National Science Teaching Association.\xa0\xa0In this issue, I read the section \u201cEditor\u2019s Note\u201d written by Elizabeth Barrett-Zahn.\xa0 Elizabeth wrote an article entitled \u201cThe Language of Science.\u201d
The language of science is much more than just knowing technical or content-specific words or phrases.\xa0 Understanding science requires the development of an academically social language. Students need opportunities to see how language can be used to describe, represent, question, refute, and reach a consensus when learning to make sense of the natural world.