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Concepts in Physics: A Comparative Cognitive Analysis of Arabic and French Terminologies
Synopsis
This book offers substantial insight into students’ conceptualization of scientific terminology. The current book explores the commonalities and distinctions between Arabic and French physics terms, and the impact of the language disparities on students’ understanding of physics terms. This book adopts a new approach to the problem of scientific terminology by exploring physics terms’ polysemy, prototypical meanings, and conceptual metaphor and metonymy, which motivates the extension of their meanings. The book also investigates how the linguistic discrepancies and other variables affect the learning of physics by Arab students (particularly Moroccan students). Concepts in ...
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