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Download full textGerber, Ans; Engelbrecht, Johann; Harding, Ansie; Rogan, John – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2005
Understanding abstract concepts and ideas in mathematics, if instruction takes place in the first language of the student, is difficult. Yet worldwide students often have to master mathematics via a second or third language. The majority of students in South Africa--a country with eleven official languages--has to face this difficulty. In a…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Mathematics Instruction, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
