Focuses on the role of learning style and individual differences in English-as-a-Second/Foreign-Language (ESL/EFL) learning. Discusses ways to help ESL/EFL educators and program designers gain a better understanding of the human differences in learning and to assist them in selecting classroom teaching strategies when designing curricula.…

Students of English majoring in literature find it difficult to cope with literature in general and poetry in particular. This article discusses the importance of engaging students in activities based on literary theory that will help them learn to communicate their appreciation of a text in a professional environment. (Author/VWL)

Examines recent studies of linguistic corpora in Italian, and presents the results of an analysis of "piace" and "piacciono" conducted on a corpus of 3.5 million words of written Italian, accessible at the University of Birmingham in England. Focuses on pedagogical applications of the data and on the inductive methodologies…

Explores the term "applied linguistics" and discusses the role of language testing within this discipline, the relationship between testing and teaching, and the relationship between testing and assessment (Author/VWL)

Analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of product, process, and genre approaches to writing in terms of their view of writing and how they see the development of writing. Argues that the three approaches are complementary, and identifies an approach that is informed by each of them. (Author/VWL)

Describes how the State University of New York, using large databases and regression techniques, has developed several coordinated, comprehensive efforts to evaluate and project current and future enrollments. One requires decomposition of the student population into mutually exclusive subgroups. The other, superior, approach uses logistic…

Reviews the early history of Montessori education from the Italian State Orthophrenic School to the opening of the original Casa dei Bambini in San Lorenzo, Italy on January 6, 1907. Includes a synopsis of Maria Montessori's progressive revelations of the child's developing self over the past century. (JPB)

Considers the child's development journey from a Montessorian perspective to explain how personal development recapitulates the historical complexity of human exploration and rational discovery in mental processes that connect the individual with the environment. (JPB)

Discusses the interpretive nature of Montessori education by characterizing the Montessori teacher as an observer of a living, growing, human design. Describes experiences working with Mother Isabel Eugenie in Philadelphia during the 1960s. (JPB)

Discusses the process of implementing the whole-school Montessori approach in a Dallas, Texas, school that served poor and minority children. Considers the transitions of the school to a unified, "organic" perspective. Summarizes on-going struggles within the process of change. (JPB)

Presents the idea of a mathematics workshop that teaches techniques that employs student choice, use of manipulatives, and student self-reflection. Shares the research base underlying mathematics workshops and describes how to conduct one. Illustrates three parts of the mathematics workshop: the minilesson, the activity period, and reflection…

Explores the differences between deep and surface approaches to learning science. Findings indicate that the deep-surface learning differences fall into five categories: (1) generative thinking; (2) nature of explanations; (3) asking questions; (4) metacognitive activity; and (5) approach to tasks. Suggests that teachers can encourage a deep…

Measures outcomes of a group treatment for five- to eight-year-old sexually abused children. Results find that children improved significantly from pre-treatment to mid-treatment on measures of problematic behavior, sexual information and abuse prevention. Suggests that young children do benefit from a sexual abuse group treatment and that a…

Presents information to facilitate a one- to two-hour training session for teachers, other professionals, and parents on how to use peer tutoring to empower children and youth who exhibit challenging behaviors. Defines peer tutoring and presents what research reveals about best practices. Lays down steps for developing and implementing a peer…

This commentary reviews previous articles that discuss major educational approaches for young children with autism. Controversy related to the exclusive and extensive use of applied behavior analysis and discrete trial training is discussed. The need for guidelines to assist in assessing the suitability of various interventions for individual…