Language of

Instruction
in Science
Education
Chapter 4
Jasmin Espiritu Acuña

   
 What is the home language
in the Philippines?
Language spoken at home
Andrew Gonzales1986

• 33 ％　　 Tagalog Tagalog

• 27 ％　　 Cebuano
Cebuano
other
English

• 0.07 ％　 English

   
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 What is the home language of 
Ling180 classmates?

   
 Second International Science
Acheivement Study 1983 /23
countries

• Good result! Poor result ↓

Finland 21th the Philippines

Korea
Sweden 22th Israel
Hungary 23th Nigeria
Japan
   
 Science is…
a) a system of the facts observed in
nature or in contrived situations
called experiments
b) generalizations of these
observations into statements called
laws;
c) Plausible statements explaining how
and why the events happen the way
they do
   
 Learning Science
Demands…
• Keen power of observation
• A reasonably good memory
• Mind that is inquisitive, analytic,creative
and imaginative

A good
scientist,engineer,inventor,
technician
Constantlymust be… with new
experimenting
ways of doing something, in order to
find the best way
   
 How science is taught in
other countries?
• In Japan…
instruction language; Japanese
terms (for scientific concepts);
Japanese, some borrowed words from
English or other languages
ex.

   
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 Scientific concepts requires
understandiing of everyday
concepts 

   
 How do higher mental processes
develop 

   
 Congnitive researches in science
teaching

   
 The Effect Of Two languages of
Instruction

   
 What is known about literacy?

   
 How does language develop?

   
 What is the new role of education?

   
 What is the new role of education?

   
 Action Plans

   
 Filipino students in Japan
JSL---contend based
Support in English

Problems