This article describes a wayfinding study conducted in an urban, academic library to better understand the experiences of multilingual student populations. The study, which incorporated traditional user experience methods and video ethnography, exposed communication obstacles and spatial challenges encountered by students of English for speakers…

THE PROGRAM AT P.S. 158-M FOR "APHASIC" CHILDREN PROVIDES THE PROPER SETTING (SMALL CLASSES, HIGHLY MOTIVATED AND EXCELLENT TEACHERS, DIRECT SUPERVISORY INSTRUCTION, AND ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT) IN WHICH TO STUDY THE PARTICULAR CHILD AND HIS CAPACITIES AND INCAPACITIES. COMMUNICATION AND LANGUAGE ARE DEVELOPED USING INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP…

AN INVESTIGATION WAS MADE OF THE ARTICULATION GAP WHICH RESULTS FROM THE LACK OF COMMUNICATION IN CHEMISTRY EDUCATION BETWEEN HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS AND COLLEGE INSTRUCTORS OF FIRST-YEAR COURSES, AND FROM A LACK OF AGREEMENT ABOUT THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF CHEMISTRY COURSES AT THE SECONDARY LEVEL. ELIMINATION OF THIS GAP WAS CONSIDERED BY THE…

A CONFERENCE WAS HELD TO MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE STUDY OF LANGUAGES OTHER THAN ENGLISH, FRENCH, GERMAN, ITALIAN, RUSSIAN, AND SPANISH. DISCUSSIONS WERE CENTERED ON (1) DETERMINING CRITERIA FOR THE SELECTION OF NEGLECTED LANGUAGES WORTHY OF INCREASED STUDY, (2) SELECTING A LIST OF LANGUAGES MEETING THE CRITERIA, (3) A…

Factors contributing to high crime rates and low school attendance rates among Chinese youth include language problems, lack of youth programs, crowded living conditions, peer group struggles, lack of role models, and difficulties in communicating with parents. Project Reach attempts to deal with some of these problems. (EB)

IT IS NOT YET KNOWN HOW THE EXTENT OF LANGUAGE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN LOWER CLASS CHILDREN AND TEACHERS WITH MIDDLE CLASS TRAINING AND, FOR THE MOST PART, WITH MIDDLE CLASS BACKGROUNDS, INFLUENCES CLASSROOM COMMUNICATION. AN EVALUATION WAS MADE OF THE EXPRESSIVE LINGUISTIC SKILLS AND SPEECH CONTENT OF CHILDREN OF DIFFERENT AGES, RACES, AND SOCIAL…

FOR SEVERAL YEARS PRIOR TO THE 1954 SUPREME COURT DECISION, MEMBERS OF ST. LOUIS SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND AGENCIES, BOTH PRIVATE AND PUBLIC, SOUGHT TO INCORPORATE THE PRINCIPLES OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY INTO THEIR PLANNING. PLANNING WAS AIMED AT FOSTERING A CLIMATE FAVORABLE TO ST. LOUIS' ACCEPTANCE OF THE SCHOOL DESEGREGATION DECISION. THESE…

AN ANALYSIS OF FEAR AND PREJUDICE WAS MADE THROUGH A SERIES OF ATTITUDE QUESTIONNAIRES, PRIVATE INTERVIEWS CONDUCTED BY TRAINED PSYCHOLOGISTS, AND A SERIES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS. RESULTS SHOWED THAT PREJUDICE STARTED IN THE FIRST FEW YEARS OF A CHILD'S LIFE THROUGH HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS PARENTS. THE ADULTS LOW IN PREJUDICE HAD STABLE OUTLOOKS…

This study used a variation of the two-child communication situation in order to determine in what way, and how successfully, a small set of schoolrelated relational concepts would be communicated by inner-city elementary school black children. Included for comparative purposes was a test of comprehension of the standard version of the concepts.…

A number of problems encountered by a large number of entering college freshmen at Kingsborough Community College under Open Admissions, such as serious deficiencies in English comprehension and express skills, deficiencies in mathematics, basic study skills, uncertainty with regard to academic expectations, and a general lack of sophistication in…