This paper describes a task-based activity used at the United States Military Academy, in their first- through third-semester Portuguese language sequence "Proficiencies" (Proficiências). The stand-alone task-based activity can be an effective tool in gaining foreign-language proficiency at even the lowest levels of classroom instruction…

Working from a feminist/critical cultural studies perspective, which perceives culture and society as imbued with political tensions, I pose two central questions in this article. First, how can community-based, consumer activism be understood as a strategy adopted by marginalised groups to assert rights claims? I focus on British women's…

This article reports a case study of one research hospital's staff developers' paradoxes and double binds. It begins with a review of definitions of hospital staff development, emphasizing nursing staff development; describes and illustrates paradoxes and contradictions; and discusses implications for hospital staff developers. (JOW)

Provides a concrete example of the use of successful incidental learning techniques in the classroom to improve science content instruction. (LZ)