El uso de la terminología científica en los alumnos que comienzan el estudio de la química en la enseñanza media. Una propuesta metodológica para su análisis.

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There is nowadays an increasing interest in the use of language in Science Teaching, as a means of communica- tion, and, maihly as an importat factor in the development of concepts. Thus, we can distinguish various aspects: syntactic, semantic, phonetic, sociolinguistic and motivational. In this paper we offer a methodology for analyzing connotations in the use of scientific vocabulary by pupils. This methodology is applied to 22 characteristic words in the teaching of preliminary concepts in chemistry. We place a special emphasis on the study of the relationship between misconceptions and the use of the words in everyday contexts.