Clasificación y análisis de los problemas terminológicos asociados con el aprendizaje de la quími...

This paper reviews the main difficulties associated with the vocabulary of chemistry. This task has enabled to classify those terms in two main groups: technical terms and non-technical words. The main feature that makes difficult the language of chemistry to students is its polisemy. Not only are there both everyday and scientific meanings corresponding to the same term, but also many scientific words have experienced an historical evolution in their meaning. Mathematical terms and dual ...