Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
The 13th Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education (CERME13), Budapest, Macaristan, 10 - 14 Temmuz 2023
We characterized a Turkish prospective mathematics teacher’s use of semantic and syntactic characteristics of nominal groups of words used for naming geometric solids with a focus on her use of adjectives (e.g., right, triangular) and nouns (prisms and pyramids). An individual task-based interview with our participant, Ada, enabled us to identify her linguistic awareness with a focus on the semantic and syntactic features in her noun phrases during the process in which she provided more special names with denser nominal groups of words (e.g., right prism with a right triangular base). The results showed that Ada made non-cumulative semantic characterizations and syntactic changes in her noun phrases in the Turkish mathematics language, in particular forming subordinated meaning units drawn on unusual combination of attributes (e.g., ‘oblique triangle’ as in ‘oblique triangle prism’).