Inquiry-based science provides a highly contextualized setting for authentic language use and higher-level dialogue that is not text-dependent, supporting English learners' language development¶
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q1 i? Inquiry science provides a highly contextualized setting for authentic language uses and opportunities for higher-level thinking and dialogue without dependence on text or print. → DiRanna 2013
Evidence¶
DiRanna 2013¶
DiRanna, K., & Gomez-Zwiep, S. (2013). High-Quality Science Instruction: Building Conceptual Understanding and Language Skills for English Learners. San Francisco: WestEd. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED580368
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Theoretical argument from the Montebello project team, quoted from Gomez-Zwiep et al. (2011, p. 774): "inquiry science provides a highly contexualized setting for authentic language uses" that is not print dependent. No empirical data are reported in this report itself.
"inquiry science provides a highly contexualized setting for authentic language uses . . . [and] it allows opportunity to develop higher level thinking and opportunities to dialogue without being text or print dependent"
Discussion¶
Learner Variables¶
- Reading and Language — outcome: instruction changes it
- English-Learner Status — outcome: instruction changes it
Related Claims¶
- Integrating literacy and science within authentic real-world experiences can produce greater learning in both areas than teaching either separately — related
- Inquiry Based Teaching Improves Science Achievement — related
- Discussion promotes more active thinking than lecture, though lecture is no worse for transmitting information — related
- Hands-on, inquiry-based science and math instruction with higher-order thinking was associated with higher English reading achievement on the Stanford Achievement Test in the AMSTI evaluation — related
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Inquiry-based science provides a highly contextualized setting for authentic language use and higher-level dialogue that is not text-dependent, supporting English learners' language development |
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Inquiry-based science provides a highly contextualized setting for authentic language use and higher-level dialogue that is not text-dependent, supporting English learners' language development |
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