Plenary lecture 6: language aspects in science and technology education: novel approaches for new technologies

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Language is the fundamental tool for the development of thought. It is therefore an essential tool for all the inquiry aspects in the sciences (identifying relationships between pieces of information, identifying investigation questions, formulating and verifying hypotheses, making inferences) and in the trains of thoughts leading from information to interpretation and ultimately to theory. It is thus extremely important that science students acquire sufficiently sophisticated levels of language-mastering to be able to use it for a real familiarization with the main aspects of doing science. In recent years, there is a growing concern about fast deterioration of the quality of language-mastering among the young generation, mostly as a result of the dominant use of communication technologies for which short, grammatically and logically unconnected sentences are viewed as the most suitable options. Such deterioration poses a threat to the development of science thoughts in future year

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