Envisages the environment as that which surrounds, conditions, opposes, and allows one to understand, identify, and attain a series of objectives. The relationship of this understanding of environment to second language learning is explored, with particular emphasis on recent methodologies that see language as a culture's mode of expression. (AMH)

Discusses the Ilongots and their attitudes toward speech. Describes speech act theory, while questioning some aspects of it. Shows how the theory applies to Ilongot speech. (EKN)

Compares high school life styles to life styles in society in general. Various styles are discussed, including academic types, delinquents, social types, hippies, freaks, and athletes and their admirers. Suggests that the set of high school subcultures is similar throughout the United States. (DB)

Examines four problems with current rhetorical definitions of movements: the assumption that movements are linear phenomena; over-emphasis on cause and effect analysis; stress on intentional analysis; and rigid definitions. Suggests a more open study which lets the critic define the movement by the study done and argue for its usefulness and…

Explores social changes which may account for changes in the type and prevalence of humor in French society. (AM)

Examines the socioeconomic determinants of the age at first marriage among women interviewed in a fertility survey of currently married women in Peninsular Malaysia. Substantial differentials in age at first marriage are associated with ethnicity, years of formal schooling, and premarital work experience, and less for social and geographic…

To be similar and different has always been the charter of human society, and also its curse. To be heirs but also founders is the unique burden of human culture. (Author/NQ)

The article suggests that a separate process of social integration labeled enculturation is able to function in a society where a culturally pluralistic view is fostered, and where this pluralistic view results in a sense of peoplehood. (NQ)

A complex interaction of factors shapes migrant adults' participation in adult basic education: sociocultural context (gender roles, powerlessness) and perceptions of schooling, learning, and education (painful experiences, dropping out but not rejecting learning). Community-based adult education is an appropriate response to the reality of…

Presents findings of a qualitative research study that set out to investigate the relation between language and the sociocultural identities of individuals learning English as a Second Language (ESL). Focus is on how English impacts the construction of sociocultural identities of Malaysian ESL speakers. (Author/VWL)

Describes and reflects on a research journey from a theoretical perspective which sought to understand what it means in practice to "become critical". Based on a South African curriculum that reflects upon aspects of conflict and dialogue in mathematics pedagogy. (MM)

Rural training sites are ideal for students to confront social, political, and economic forces underlying ill health in our society. Medical education for rural practice must provide early and sustained exposure to rural communities and rural physician role models, particularly through university-community partnerships. (Author/MSE)

Discusses adoption in the Philippines. Considers the Philippine adoption laws, foreign adoption, social concerns related to adoption, and standards for foreign adoption. (RJC)

Describes a model of cognitive and motivational processes in mathematics learning and relates the model to Brazilian street mathematics and abacus operation. Proposes instructional strategies for motivating conceptual understanding in school mathematics learning. (RJC)

Examines a new realignment and new definition of the museum and its role in helping to create a more civil society. Discusses visitors' use of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, changes in object display requested by indigenous peoples, and the changing view of authenticity. (LZ)