Linguistically Science (Using EGU Planet Press to promote Science in a native language)

Michael Anthony Pope

Zama Middle High School, Camp Zama, Japan DoDEA (maddscientist50@hotmail.com)

Spoken and written language is the foundation for learning. The power of the spoken and written word is essential to researchers and students. When students can understand, discuss, and verbalize their learning in their native tongue, we can provide the perfect platform and conduit for the next generation of scientists and inventors. The EGU Planet Press is a perfect resource that I use to facilitate this in my school with the advanced Spanish classes. Students use authentic and science-based content to further their learning of the foreign language. The articles are also helpful for our English second language (ESL) Spanish speakers in their science content learning. Using the material for reading comprehension is producing a benefit in the Spanish classroom, for the school’s ESL population, and as an extension for English-speaking students who are curious about science research not currently presented in their textbooks Additionally, I am also using the material with my polyglot daughter and her Swedish school friends to include authentic language to the teaching of science content.