Language Practices in School Mathematics

A Social Semiotic Approach

• Author(s): Anne P. Chapman,
• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
• Pages: 205
• ISBN_10: 0773469672
  ISBN_13: 9780773469679
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General , Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory , Mathematics / General , Mathematics / Study & Teaching ,

Description:... With a view to contributing to understanding the nature and role of language in mathematics education, this book examines spoken language practices. The book demonstrates that learning mathematics is very much a matter of learning to speak 'properly.' There is a pervasive and continual requirement, often hidden in everyday classroom practices, to shift towards increasingly mathematical language. The outcomes of the research reported here affirm the value of viewing language and mathematics learning from a social semiotic perspective and help further our understandings about the construction of a social semiotic theory of classroom education, both in school mathematics and across the curriculum.