How can chemistry teachers help their students gain a deeper understanding of chemistry? This is one of the questions that Ylva Hamnell-Pamment seeks to answer in her dissertation, recently presented at the Department of Educational Sciences at Lund University.

"Students who struggle with chemistry often need linguistic support. As a teacher, you also need to sit down with the student and explicitly discuss how to think and reason within the subject of chemistry. That means observing something, explaining it using models, and representing it through the symbolic language of chemistry."

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