Talking to teachers about language, visualization and transduction across modes, to support science learning

Chair: Len Unsworth, Australian Catholic University

Discussant: Elizabeth Moje, University of Michigan

Presentation 1: Talking, writing, doing & visualizing science in the classroom through a shared metalanguage

Presenter: Gail Forey, University of Barth

Presentation 2: Working with teachers to build classroom dialogue about language during the deconstruction of texts

Presenter: Lisl Fenwick, University of South Australia

Presentation 3: Toward principles of explicit teaching of multimodal literacy for science learning in upper elementary

Presenter: Alejandra Meneses/span>, Pontificia Catholic University of Chile

Co-author: Max Montenegro, Pontificia Catholic University of Chile

Presentation 4: Talking about transduction processes

Presenter: Russel Tytler, Deakin University

Co-author: Lam Pham, Deakin University

       Len Unsworth, Australian Catholic University