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Direct linkDong, Yu Ren – Science Teacher, 2013
This article highlights how English language learners' (ELLs) prior knowledge can be used to help learn science vocabulary. The article explains that the concept of prior knowledge needs to encompass the ELL student's native language, previous science learning, native literacy skills, and native cultural knowledge and life experiences.…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Prior Learning, Science Education, Vocabulary Development
Brand, Brenda R.; Glasson, George E. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2004
The purpose of this ethnographic study was to explore the development of belief systems as related to racial and ethnic identities of preservice teachers as they crossed cultural borders into science teaching. Data were collected throughout a yearlong teacher preparation program to learn how early life experiences and racial and ethnic identities…
Descriptors: Classrooms, Beliefs, Preservice Teachers, Ethnography
