[Phys-l] Language Load

["Ricca, Bernard P" <bricca@sjfc.edu>]

I don't know if this is the first reference, but I do recall Rich
Olenick (University of Dallas) talking about this back in the days of
the C3P project (1995, give or take); I even think he wrote it in one of
the C3P newsletters. My recollection is that Rich said he actually did
the counting, but I could be wrong about this part.



Barney

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> Don't know if this is really true, but I recall someone saying once

> that the language load in an intro physics course was larger than the

> language load in an intro modern language course. ?If so, that does

> say something about our expectations.



Hi Joe and all



Might anyone know of the reference for the intriguing statement in

Joe's comment above?  I'm planning a program with a

linguist/mathematician to teach calculus and physics, where we are

going to learn and use linguistics to help work through many of the

issues brought up in this very interesting thread.



sincerely,

Krishna

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Bernard Ricca, Ph.D.

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