Search results for "chinese written language"
showing 3 items of 3 documents
Argumentation and proving in multicultural classes: a linguistic-cultural approach with Chinese students
2009
The paper explores, through different theoretical/experimental investigations, a particular complex field of study such as the analysis of the teaching/learning phases in a multicultural setting in class. Through a linguistic-cultural approach it is a further close examination on the didactic thematic related to a possible comparison between East and West and particularly between Chinese mathematical thought and Italian thought, in some particular aspects related to the phase of argumentation and proving. To carry out the research, we chose to investigate, in a qualitative and quantitative way, the behaviour of Chinese and Italian students of different ages (13-15 years old) attending the S…
Ricerca educativa in ambienti multiculturali con allievi cinesi: la lingua scritta come ponte per un avvio informale al pensiero algebrico-relazionale
2017
Il contributo, evidenziando l’attuale proble- matica didattica relativa alla multiculturalità nel panorama scolastico nazionale, discute alcuni aspetti chiave della cultura cinese, uti- li ad interpretare il perché di particolari competenze algebriche, evidenziate negli allievi di area confuciana dagli insegnanti di tutti i gradi scolastici, coerenti con le valuta- zioni internazionali PISA e TIMMS. Con questo scopo, il lavoro propone nello specifico una riflessione epistemologica del rapporto tra lingua scritta cinese e avvia- mento informale al pensiero algebrico-rela- zionale e discute i dati sperimentali (di tipo implicativo) di una ricerca-azione condotta in classi di Scuola Primaria c…
Why Asian children outperform students from other countries? Linguistic and parental influences comparing Chinese and Italian children in preschool e…
2016
This paper focusing on the complex situation of the Italian multiculturalism and trying to reply to why Asian children mathematically outperform students from other countries, discusses from the epistemological point of view, Chinese children’s skills before to start their formal education in Italian educational school context. A review of the literature, comparing pre-schoolers competences of Asian and Western students, reveals two important influenced factors: linguistic and parental stimuli. In particular many researchers showed that the structure of the Chinese language provides in children a head start in basic math skills, for example to discover, since preschool activities, a pre-alg…