Descriptions of educational practice offer an array of important, but typically hidden dimensions of meaning which provide potentially rich resources for understanding the practices. This paper illustrates: (1) how analysis, interpretations, and assessments interpenetrate what appear to be descriptions and suggest how readers can tease out these…

Theories of the acquisition of word meaning among children are reviewed and a case study of one child is reported. Three models of how the young child associates words with underlying concepts and conventional meanings are noted. While one model proposes that children initially overextend word meanings, the other two models propose that new words…

The suggestions here are only illustrative of how teachers can use the close procedure to aid in developing reading comprehension. (Author)

Investigates the impact of a course in general semantics on the operational assumptions, related to education, of prospective teachers and presents an instrument with statistical reliability to be used in the recruitment of teachers. (RB)

Discusses the development of a curriculum built around the ideas expressed in "The Last Whole Earth Catalog." (RB)

What's in a name? Prejudice. Our culture takes the male standard as the norm, and our language subsumes female as woman, subdivision of Man. (Editor)

Every child should participate in a daily oral language period. (JH)

Third part of a continued article. (SK)

Discusses, in general terms, how to survive in a hostile environment, how to work out a life for yourself when you're living in a highly urbanized, technological age in an institutionally-dominated society and culture. (TO)

Despite the uniqueness of each individual's experience, approximate communication is possible in the margin of overlap between the speaker/writer's experience and that of the hearer/reader. This vague phrase, "margin of overlap," can be clarified and given an empirical base through application of the measure of vagueness developed in…

Our understanding of a story is highly dependent upon our ability to recognize the underlying purpose for actions described in the story. We need to view those actions as steps in, or reactions to, plans. This paper sketches some of the components of a model for the understanding of plans and social actions. The model is first applied to narrative…

Discusses the grammatical form and meaning of Russian perfective verbs and contrasts them with derived imperfectives. A number of examples are provided and analyzed. (Text is in German.) (DH)