Mind the gap: lexicographical gaps in earth and environmental science textbooks in primary and secondary school Authors Elisenda Bernal Universitat Pompeu Fabra https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8287-7281 Albert Morales Moreno Universitat Oberta de Catalunya https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3068-0767 DOI: 10.2436/20.2503.01.240 Keywords: basic specialized vocabulary, school terminology, earth and environmental sciences, general dictionary, lexicographic gaps Abstract Our analysis compares a set of terms found in earth and environmental science textbooks (published between 2015 and 2025 by the main educational publishers in Catalonia) with their presence or absence in Catalan dictionaries (see Estopà, 2025, in this issue). The study includes materials used in both primary and compulsory secondary education. We specifically focus on words that appear in textbooks but are not included in either the normative dictionary of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans or the DIDAC school dictionary, published by the group Enciclopèdia Catalana. Also presented is a brief analysis of the factors behind these lexical gaps, which can be explained by lexicographic decisions as well as by the level of specialization of the terms. Downloads Download data is not yet available. Downloads PDF (Català) Published 2025-12-29 How to Cite Bernal, E., & Morales Moreno, A. (2025). Mind the gap: lexicographical gaps in earth and environmental science textbooks in primary and secondary school. Terminàlia, 2(32), 55–61. Retrieved from https://revistes.iec.cat/index.php/Terminalia/article/view/156397 More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX Issue No. 32: December 2025 Section Articles License Authors registered on the OJS platform must read the copyright assignment terms and fill in the corresponding acceptance box.The intellectual property of articles belongs to the respective authors.On submitting articles for publication to the journal Terminàlia, authors accept the following terms:Authors assign to SCATERM (a subsidiary of Institut d'Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, communication to the public and distribution of the articles submitted for publication to Terminàlia.Authors answer to SCATERM for the authorship and originality of submitted articles.Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles.SCATERM declines all liability for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors.The contents published in the journal, unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) 3.0 Spain licence, the complete text of which may be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Consequently, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate the work, provided that its authorship and the body publishing it are acknowledged, and that no commercial use and no derivative works are made of it.The journal is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of the published articles.
