Provides communication-disorders specialists with a basic introduction to the ethnographic method as a way to serve clients and students from diverse cultures with complex disabilities. Gives suggestions for its use as a clinical tool to study culture, context, and communication from a client-centered perspective. (Author/CR)

Opportunities for teaching a young child with autism to request more play were created at multiple points on the playground by momentarily interrupting the child's ongoing play using the behavior chain interruption strategy. The intervention resulted in high rates of correct requesting which were maintained with a new teacher and generalized to a…

Discusses how English-as-Second/Foreign-Language teachers, equipped with a good syllabus and methodology, should be able to engineer aspects that create equal opportunities for both males and females in all areas of classroom interaction. Suggests that more research is needed on the origins of gender differences and its effect on second-language…

Confirms that a significant relationship exists between a reader's reading ability and his or her metacognitive awareness. Discusses how reciprocal teaching can improve the reading ability and metacognition of students learning English as a second language. (Author/VWL)

Testing deviance must begin with the adoption of new views on the significance of testing. If language is viewed as a means of communicating, then instruction should focus on teaching students to use language for communication, and language tests should be designed so students can demonstrate their abilities in the language coupled with new…

Describes one English-as-a-foreign-language teacher's experiences using English language theater festivals in Romania as an instructional strategy. The festival format, goals and objectives, technical and dress rehearsals, and the actual performances are discussed. (Author/VWL)

A study involving six gifted fifth graders investigated the effectiveness of training teachers to differentiate for gifted students' needs by curricular adaptations. When the setting of goals was left to individual trained teachers, some chose goals that were easy to implement and had little or no real impact on instructional techniques. (CR)

A crucial component of academic lectures is the use of chunks, phrases, and body language, and their role in facilitating understanding. This article examines the function and context of this component in the discourse of academic lectures. (Author/VWL)

Discusses the rationale for offering English-as-a-Second-Language instruction to incarcerated adults. Describes one effective program that has been successful in keeping students' attention. Suggests that inmates can discover enjoyment in constructive pursuits and realize they can derive satisfaction from legitimate activities. (Author/VWL)

The University of South Florida has successfully delivered its Symposium Series through the Internet to the desktops of individuals unable to attend the lectures, using streaming audio and video and IP multicast technologies. What began as a proof-of-concept prototype to test technological capabilities has become a valued service at the…

Identifies and discusses the four learning styles identified by the Gregorc Style Delineator: (1) concrete sequential; (2) abstract random; (3) abstract sequential; and (4) concrete random. Offers suggestions for teaching students with differing learning styles. (VWC)

Suggests that teacher preparation courses should model hands-on activities that promote positive attitudes toward science. Investigates the qualities of activities in a field-based science methods course that motivates preservice elementary teachers to implement them in their own classrooms. (Author/CCM)

Discusses a case study on discovery learning with a computer simulation environment in the physics domain of collisions. Finds that providing assignments with the simulation improves students' performance on one aspect of an intuitive-knowledge test. Contains 43 references. (Author/WRM)

Presents a case for using benefit-cost analysis to structure evaluations of child-abuse prevention and intervention programs. Presents the basic concept of benefit-cost analysis, its application in the context of assessing these types of child welfare programs, and limitations on its application to social service programs. (Author)

Discusses the study of teacher researchers undertaking research into self-chosen aspects of their own mathematics teaching at the secondary level by using qualitative methods to explore the processes and practices of this research and the issues that it raised. Emphasizes that emergent theory of teachers' research activity fit strongly with a view…