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Languaging-as-Practice in Science Education: An Alternative to Metaphors of Language-as-Tool
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Maricela León; Catherine Lemmi; Quentin Sedlacek; Nickolaus Alexander Ortiz; Kimberly Feldman – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2024
This commentary proposes the metaphor of "languaging-as-practice" in science education as an alternative to "language-as-tool" metaphors. Describing language as a tool implicitly positions language as static and unchanging and assumes that named languages are distinct and bounded entities. In contrast, describing languaging as…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Figurative Language, Science Education, Linguistics