Empirical research findings and my own experience in South Asian and African school systems suggest to me that complex scientific terminology can be avoided in primay science curricula, when alternatives are available. Let me now take you back on my time machine, to the year 1988. The usual Southern African horizon isn't going to enchant me until I do something to redefine my instructional approach. I play a video clip that shows a man being rushed to the ICU of a hospital immediately after a severe road accident. I ask my students to describe the scene in simple, communicative English.
Students talk a lot and come up with a variety of descriptions.
The interaction continues such that the students are able to draw a similarity between the two events, viz. Net Web Services sm , a division of Teachers Web sm . All Rights Reserved.