847Roles of Language Mastery for Conceptual Understanding
• Become benecial to science understanding through the analysis, from the points of view
of different ways of expressing them, of science concepts that the learner has already
acquired rmly.
• Highlight the cross-language character of the requirements of the language-of-science
(Mammino 2006b) by showing, through concrete practice, how the same requirements
(being rigorous, being clear) are pursued through different languages on the basis of the
same references (the science concepts, i.e., the characteristics of the system or phenomenon
that is the object of interest and the way in which we know them). This enables a more
holistic perception of the nature of the global scientic endeav ...