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Go back   Title: The role of linguistic features when reading and solving mathematics tasks in different languages Type: Article in The Journal of Mathematical Behavior Fulltext:   Available on the webpage of the journal; direct link (limited access)   Author version available, pdf-document   Abstract: The purpose of this study is to deepen the understanding of the relation between the language used in mathematics tasks and the difficulty in reading and solving the tasks. We examine issues of language both through linguistic features of tasks (word length, sentence length, task length, and information density) and through different natural languages used to formulate the tasks (English, German, and Swedish). Analyses of 83 PISA mathematics tasks reveal that tasks in German, when compared with English and Swedish, show stronger connections between the examined linguistic features of tasks and difficulty in reading and solving the tasks. We discuss if and how this result can be explained by general differences between the three languages.

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