Discusses teaching vocabulary when students do not know the words nor the concepts they represent. (SRT)

Discusses four prevalent misconceptions about critical reading and thinking and presents classroom strategies to foster an awareness of each. (EL)

Discusses the use of stereotyped speech patterns as teaching material or as the basis of communicative exercises. Gives examples of the use of these gambits in drills and exercises in German. (EKN)

Discusses ways in which the atmosphere in an English classroom sometimes changes when a teacher-writer is in charge. (FL)

Explores ERIC materials on various theories of language development and their implications for vocabulary development in classroom settings. Provides suggestions for enriching the school language environment to promote vocabulary growth. (HTH)

Decries teachers' use of questions with the phrase "tell me," arguing that this locus of authority in the classroom interferes with children's understanding of the function of language. (HTH)

Describes the unorthodox methods used by a high school English teacher to get the meaning of such literary terms as "classicism,""romanticism,""realism," and "naturalism" across to her students. (RBW)

Discusses word games and activities that encourage students to use dictionaries and alternate forms in their writing. (HTH)

Looks at research and practice in the area of idioms and offers suggestions for teaching them effectively. (FL)

An often-neglected aspect of daily language is syllable doubling or repetition, as in infant language ("nounou"), onomatopoeia ("ronron"), interjections or responses ("oui oui"), names ("Mimi"), or military slang ("coco" for "commandant"). The mechanisms and semantic functions of this phenomenon are outlined, drawing on examples from French…

The Japanese Keigo system is the whole of the grammatical rules related to expressions of respectful or pejorative feelings concerning all persons involved in speech acts. This article proposes a new approach to the problem of teaching this system at the elementary level. (CLK)

The Malaysian educational system tends to take a clear instructionally-focused approach to the teaching of mathematics. This means that many students gain a good procedural command of areas of mathematics. This paper explores one outcome of a teaching experiment in which one area of mathematics (differentiation) was taught in a radically different…

This paper identifies philosophical, theoretical, and research foundations of counselor education and drawing parallels between the art of counseling and the art of counselor education. It is argued that counselors have many skills that are transferable to the classroom and that an exceptional learning environment is created when counselor…

Special issue devoted to linguistics in teacher preparation and higher education. (VM)

Describes several effective techniques for teaching students about the phonetic alphabet and about such aspects of speech as slang, jargon, colloquialisms, and regional dialects. (DD)