Talking Science: Language and Learning in Science Classrooms

This book is about the fundamental nature of talk in school science. Language as a formal system provides resources for conducting everyday affairs, including the doing of science. And while writing science is one aspect, talking science may in fact constitute a much more important means by which we navigate and know the world-the very medium through which we do science.

In Talking Science Wolff-Michael Roth articulates a view of language that differs from the way science educators generally...