Diversity Dimensions in Mathematics and Language Learning: Perspectives on Culture, Education and Multilingualism

✍ Scribed by Annemarie Fritz (editor); Erkan Gürsoy (editor); Moritz Herzog (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 434
• Series: DaZ-Forschung [DaZ-For]; 24
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Open Access

Extensive research is available on language acquisition and the acquisition of mathematical skills in early childhood. But more recently, research has turned to the question of the influence of specific language aspects on acquisition of mathematical skills. This anthology combines current findings and theories from various disciplines such as (neuro-)psychology, linguistics, didactics and anthropology.

✦ Table of Contents

Foreword
Introduction
Acknowledgments
Contents
I Perspectives on mathematics and language of different disciplines
The diversity of linguistic references to quantities across the world’s cultures
Language and mathematics: How children learn arithmetic through specifying their lexical concepts of natural numbers
A neuropsychological perspective on the development of and the interrelation between numerical and language processing
Culture and language: How do these influence arithmetic?
Exploiting the epistemic role of multilingual resources in superdiverse mathematics classrooms: Design principles and insights into students’ learning processes
II Language learning and mathematics development
Ties of math and language: A cognitive developmental perspective
The relative importance of “parental talk” as a predictor of the diversity in mathematics learning in young children
Number words, quantifiers, and arithmetic development with particular respect of zero
III Multilingualism and mathematical learning
Directionality of number space associations in Hebrew-speaking children: Evidence from number line estimation
Exact number representations in first and second language
Identifying math and reading difficulties of multilingual children: Effects of different cut-offs and reference groups
IV Vision, hearing, and speech language impairments
Numerical competencies in preschoolers with language difficulties
Disentangling the relationship between mathematical learning disability and second-language acquisition
Blindness and deafness: A window to study the visual and verbal basis of the number sense
V Language as learning resource in school
Reading and writing words and numbers: Similarities, differences, and implications
The assessment of mathematics vocabulary in the elementary and middle school grades
Language issues in mathematics word problems for English learners
Fifth-grade students’ production of mathematical word problems
The influence of reading comprehension on solving mathematical word problems: A situation model approach
Supporting teachers to scaffold students’ language for mathematical learning
About the editors
List of authors