This article presents our experience on teaching biochemical sciences through an innovative approach that integrates concepts of molecular cell biology and protein chemistry. This original laboratory exercise is based on the preparation of an affinity chromatography column containing F-actin molecules immobilized on chitin particles for purifying…

This paper presents an ethnographic case study of advanced second language (L2) students from Hong Kong who took part in a short-term sojourn in England after 14 weeks of preparation. While abroad, they lived with a host family, took literary/cultural studies courses, visited cultural sites, participated in debriefing sessions, and conducted…

Describes efforts of OE to help gifted and talented students develop to full capacity. (GB)

Outlines the development of the construct of giftedness, asserting that giftedness is not a fact of nature or something discovered by educators and psychologists but rather a recently invented, socially constructed concept. Reviews the evolution of this construction and discusses practical implications of its application in education, speculating…

This study examines the pragmatic strategies that learners utilize to negotiate a resolution when refusing a native speaker of higher status in three asymmetric situations (+Power, +Distance). Following Pomerantz's (1984) analysis of dispreferred responses, this study focuses on refusals to an invitation, a request, and a suggestion. Refusal…

This study was an exploration of how high school language learners and their teacher jointly constructed word meanings through multimodal representation and the sociopolitical reality of learners' lives as mediating factors in the context of simultaneous multiple learning activities. Thirty-three high school Advanced ESL 3 students were taught…

Enumerates eight skills necessary for reading difficult literature, especially poems, and illustrates how to teach each skill. (RB)

A parent describes how accelerating her son from the third to fifth grade provided the intellectual challenge her son needed as well as solved his problem of being considered "different" from his peers. (PHR)

Examines key principles of critical language awareness with reference to a class on critical reading that was taught to advanced foreign language learners. Argues that critical language awareness needs to be located within critical pedagogy, and that critical pedagogy is conceptualized around three major principles: teaching as emancipatory,…

This study investigated how the speech act of refusal is realized in Egyptian Arabic by intermediate and advanced American learners of Arabic as a foreign language. It also compared the performance of the learners to that of native speakers of Egyptian Arabic and native speakers of American English. The study aimed to investigate the relationship…

The current study is a survey of the achievement goals of music students and the manner in which their strategies and instrumental performance relate to these goals. In the context of advanced instrumental learning, the rationale for the present study was to contribute to the literature on motivation in music students, and thereby, help teachers…

This paper reports the results of a study of the relationship of robotics activity to the use of science literacy skills and the development of systems understanding in middle school students. Twenty-six 11-12-year-olds (22 males and 4 females) attending an intensive robotics course offered at a summer camp for academically advanced students…

Briefly describes the Winston-Salem (North Carolina) Summer Honors Art program for highly motivated secondary students. Part of a theme issue on art education for students with special needs. (SJL)

Examines advanced students' course taking procedures and their senior year mathematics participation. Concludes that students who took early algebra demonstrated a substantially higher participation rate in advanced mathematics in the later grades of high school than students who did not. (Contains 25 references.) (ASK)

Suggests that gifted children do not fit into traditional classrooms where the curriculum is based merely on age, and large numbers of gifted children are in inappropriate educational settings. The article examines: how to cast aside stereotypes about what giftedness means; who is gifted; what public schools do for gifted children; and how to help…