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education, sometimes leaving little room for choice. This is true as teachers wrestle with their own autonomy and the school board...

might be termed the "straightforward" meanings of the words, he frequently adds a commentary of his own which sometimes refers to ...

a significant problem for this group. In any event, it also appears that to some extent the hand made clothing associated with the...

as Zipfs law, that human languages follow a pattern that is characterized by the frequency of different words (Ravilious, 2003). ...

In 1994, estimates suggest that upwards of 500,000 deaf Americans incorporated ASL into their daily communications, while many oth...

has been developing since the turn of the 20th century, and is often described in four specific stages: the developmental or form...

differ. Any form can be instrumental in returning lower-than-optimum scores on language tests. Teachers sensitive to the c...

of the bible belt that anyone who is connected to the clergy are inherently good people when in fact clergy are human beings, subj...

Dyslexia is THE most common and most prevalent of all known learning disabilities states the National Institute of Health(NIH). Gi...

partnerships, English became a political language. The expansion of American business interests in the Third World further suppor...

or language disorder that prevents them form expressing themselves or limits their ability to understand what other are telling th...

be equipped to figure it out on their own. Blachowicz suggests that by having students learn words as individual entities rather ...

explained the bottom up model: "the reader first identifies features of letters; links these features together to recognize letter...

t hat has been linked to complex problem solving and other forms of higher cognition, such as deriving abstract principles and cha...

element and understand the theory behind it. Dr. Lazanov developed this process in the 1970s (Lazanov and Gateva, 1988). ...

is embraced by American schools to varying degrees. Still, the subject usually attracts heated debates. Bilingual education is t...

of these devices include reading machines made for the blind, speech-recognition devices, as well as computer programs that detect...

both married before their husbands had died and left them widows. In the first section of the story, Wharton gives background prof...

supremacy of white, native-born citizens" (Diamond, 1996, p. 154). Because so many people speak English and it is the primary lan...

modern-day utopias that seemed to have the best of everything. There were sporting events, community activities, performing arts,...

et al 1996). Some teachers were given specific instructions that in addition to avoiding these possibly difficult and controversia...

128). This individual clearly is quite capable, and sensitive to the nuances of language. Fu and Townsend (1998) quote ano...

Visual program, his brother William went a step further by using the same computer (TX-2) to create a data flow language(Najork). ...

African American vernacular (Crowley, 1997). One can easily drawn parallels between the linguistic construction in many West Afric...

this is with the use of a WebQuest that had been created by Bernie Dodge (2003). WebQuests have a structured, inquiry-based method...

spelling of swor (to swoor) and the change from "hire" to "hir." In addition, though of the usable participle "to" clarifies the ...

interact and evolve. Such students take little convincing to become ready informants in our current quest to understand language ...

and the way we cognitively process speech. Are these processes linked to an inherent modularity? If we look as speech from a Ved...

primary sample population in this study consists of subjects selected from the population of university students in a laboratory c...

will come to being able to communicate effectively" (Gassin, 1990, 437). Like Adams, Gassin (1990) also believed that the achieve...