Describes a game used with Chapter 1 students to develop dictionary and reading skills and to help students grasp what it means to define a word. (MG)

This article describes two alternative coordinate systems and their use in graphing conic sections. This alternative graph paper helps students explore the idea of eccentricity using the definitions of the conic sections.

The ability to derive the meanings of words from supportive story contexts was studied in 45 7- to 8-year-olds. Children read short stories each containing a different novel word and defined the word at the end of each story. There were three intervention sessions. One group was asked to justify their definition and subsequently received feedback…

The authors address the need to teach students to become more word aware by focusing on metasemantic awareness, alongside morphological and syntactic awareness, as a basis for developing metacognition about words. They extend the concept of a definition map to other forms of vocabulary learning and provide several helpful graphic organizers.…

Many English professionals do not seem to pay much attention to the use of L1 in English language classrooms, based on the tenets that English should be taught in English to expose the learners to English which would enhance their knowledge of English and accelerate their learning. While research findings have been inconsistent in relation to this…

A more comprehensive definition of the variable "interaction" is needed to answer the numerous questions concerning interaction effects in distance learning. This study attempts to qualify the concept of interaction by applying various dimensions such as amount, timeliness, method, spontaneity, and quality. In turn, these dimensions of interaction…

This paper critiques Aumaugher's argument which states that the traditional view of concepts as a class of things with common attributes is an insufficient one, and, instead, offers a counterview, stemming from the work of Wittgenstein, which says that a concept is a term's use in the language. Aumaugher states that concept-terms are not always,…

Defines and explains Alfred Korzybski's theories about general semantics and suggests educational applications. (RB)

Class exploration and a writing assignment on "quality" help students to understand the aim of the writing course. (DD)

Presents ten activity cards which can be used in developing students' defining skills. (DD)

Provides a systematic conceptualization of population education using Hilda Taba's listing-grouping-labelling sequence. Also considers the use of inquiry (inductive, problem solving, and discovery) in learning population education concepts, attributes of population education, and what population education is and is not. (JN)

This section, Of Special Interest," deals with the ethical dimension in education for business. (JS)

The author defines psychic ability and suggests ways that teachers can recognize it. (KC)

Argues that composition teachers need to spend more time teaching writing as a process. Suggests that models of the writing process should avoid strict references to prewriting, writing, and rewriting stages and should instead reflect the reality that each aspect of writing may occur at any time during the composing process. (TJ)