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Table 7 Student K’s Written Explanation with Lexical Strings; Synonym and Contrast

From: ELL’s science meaning making in multimodal inquiry: a case-study in a Hong Kong bilingual school

Student K

Synonym

Contrast

1. Everything is resting

  

2. when we started the experiment

  

3. because the forces are all balanced.

Forces

Balanced

4. The bill is pulled quickly

Pulled

(Missing unbalanced)

5. and the coins stayed on the bottle is

  

6. because the forces are balanced too.

Forces

 

7. The forces are balanced

Forces

 

8. because the newtons are the same.

Newtons