Language difficulty among chemistry students in the use of non-technical words in chemistry textbooks

• Main Author: Pimentel, Regina Q.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1997
• Subjects: Chemistry > Study and teaching; Language and Languages > Ability testing; Textbooks; Science > Language; Chemistry students; High school students; Chemistry
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_doctoral/783
• Institution: De La Salle University

This study attempts to identify the non-technical words commonly used in high school and college chemistry textbooks and to determine their degrees of difficulty. The study has two parts: the development, try-out and validation of the Word Knowledge Test (WKT) and the investigation of students langu...