foreign language – Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

Choosing technical terminology that does not make people feel excluded or uncomfortable

mglessmer — Fri, 20 May 2022 07:57:57 +0000

A colleague recently sent me a great article by Peter Kirn: “So yeah, let’s just use plug and socket — industry group recommends obvious change in terminology“. In the article, it is pointed out that the “male” and “female” terminology, referring to and how cables are connected together, is problematic and should be avoided in […]

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Oceanographic concepts and language (part 3)

mglessmer — Mon, 23 Dec 2013 05:02:28 +0000

What level of proficiency do you need to communicate about science? This post is not strictly about oceanography, but I started thinking about it in the context of a class I taught recently, where I was teaching in a foreign language to me and most of the students. After one of the classes, a student […]

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Oceanographic concepts and language (part 2)

mglessmer — Fri, 20 Dec 2013 04:54:58 +0000

How to make lectures in a foreign language less scary for the students. The class that I have until recently taught in Bergen, GEOF130, is taken by students in oceanography and meteorology in the second year of their Bachelor at the university. It is the first course they take at the Geophysical Institute – their […]

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Oceanographic concepts and language (part 1)

mglessmer — Wed, 04 Dec 2013 04:59:11 +0000

About teaching in a language that is a foreign language for both your students and yourself. Most of my teaching so far has happened in English to mainly non-native English speakers with the occasional native speaker thrown in. One thing that I realized recently was that concepts that are definitely not common knowledge at home […]

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