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Identifying vernacular language to use in mathematics teaching / Cris Edmonds-Wathen, Kay Owens, Vagi Bino // Language and education Vol. 33-No1/2019
2019
p.1-17

Teaching mathematics in children’s first language has both cognitive benefits and assists with developing cultural and mathematical identity. In Papua New Guinea, many different Indigenous languages are used for instruction in elementary schools and teachers often need to identify or develop mathematics terminology themselves. Building on prior research, guidelines were developed to assist teachers to find the mathematics in their own vernacular languages. The guidelines were adaptable to different language ecologies and covered mathematical areas such as counting systems, measuring and comparing, location and shapes. The guidelines were applied by teachers in professional development workshops. The paper shows examples from some of the workshops of the challenges that the teachers faced in trying to identify appropriate mathematical language, and that contributed to the refining of the guidelines.
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多语环境下“母语”概念的界定:困境与出路 = Defining Mother Tongue in a Bilingual or Multilingual Environment: Problems and Solutions / FANG Xiaobing. // Applied linguistics. 2015, No.2.
2015.
77-86 p.

Mother tongue is defined by traditional linguistics from three dimensions,i. e. language acquisition,national identity and language use. Thereby it is called first language,native language and dominant language accordingly. However,in a bilingual or multilingual environment,the definitions are faced with various challenges. It is proposed that mother tongue,as an independent connotative concept,is a product affected by both subjective and objective factors. It serves as an objective basis for children’s language acquisition and contains both individual and community identities. Due to these two identities,it is common that some bilinguals have two mother tongues. It is argued that re-defining mother tongue will shed significant light onthe acquisition,planning,human rights,maintenance and education of mother tongue in a bilingual or multilingual environment.