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Parkinson, Jean; Adendorff, Ralph – Language and Education, 1997
Reports on an ethnographic study of laboratory sessions in the departments of Physics and Chemistry at the University of Natal in Durban, South Africa, with specific focus on the comparison of the function of verbs in three first-year laboratory manuals. Several pedagogical implications are discussed. (JL)
Descriptors: Apartheid, Chemistry, Comparative Analysis, English for Academic Purposes