Does the bilingual physics course have dual functions? 雙語物理教學是否雙予?

Yu Lim Chen^1*

¹Physics, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

* Presenter:Yu Lim Chen, email:chendaneyl@ntnu.edu.tw

After the 1920s, English succeeded German, French, and Italian as the lingua franca of the scientific community. Bilingual teaching has been introduced into classrooms in primary, secondary and university in response to government policies. It is found that the students' language cognitive process in bilingual teaching echoes scientific inquiry. Appropriate curriculum design might promote teaching and learning effectiveness.

Keywords: lingua franca, cognitive process, scientific inquiry