This dissertation examined the relationship between language and reading in bilingual English-Arabic children. The dissertation followed a two chapter Review and Research Format. Chapter One presents a review of research that examined the relationship between oral language and reading development in bilingual English-Arabic children. Chapter Two…

Much has been written about the glass ceiling and pay differentials in higher and further education (HE, FE) for women academics (McTavish and Miller 2009, Rees 2007) but very little about discrepancies for women "professional managers" within UK higher education. Professional managers as a term needs to be defined as universities call…

A STUDY WAS CONDUCTED TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE GENERAL CONCEPTUAL FRAME OF REFERENCE OF THE COLLEGE STUDENT WHO INTENDS TO GO INTO TEACHING, AND PARTICULARLY ABOUT HIS PERCEPTION OF EDUCATIONAL CONCEPTS. THE EXPERIMENTAL GROUP CONSISTED OF 245 STUDENTS ENROLLED IN AN INTRODUCTORY COURSE IN EDUCATION. THE CONTROL GROUP CONSISTED OF 68 STUDENT…

This study examined similarities and differences in the affective meaning of emotions and sentiments, using Osgood's data for American, German, Iranian, Japanese, and Mexican language communities. Analyses indicated that the cultures differed significantly in 30% of their judgments; the fewest divergences were for the most important dimension…

Examines the effects of different-intensity unconditioned stimuli as well as generalization to related and unrelated test words. Its results indicate that semantic generalization is not a consequence of mediated generalization as traditionally conceived. (Editor/RK)

A study showing that lexically equivalent words in two languages have different affective meanings, that affective intensity of dominant language words is greater than for second language equivalents, and that the difference is greatest for words with high affective meaning demonstrates that affective meaning is an important component of…

Demonstrates that both scale-checking style and concept-scale interaction are crucial variables in research using the semantic differential method to assess semantic development. Eight children from each of grades K-5 and 16 adults (aged 17.5-68 years) served as subjects. (MP)

Causal statements from adults with learning disabilities and normally achieving adults were analyzed and organized within a linguistic taxonomy of causal semantic relations, and a relationship between Piagetian cognitive stages and verbal expressions of causality were identified. Piagetian principles were used to design assessment and intervention…

General practitioners (GPs) need advanced skills in geriatric assessment to be competent to treat the increasing number of elderly patients. Continuing medical education in geriatrics for GPs is heterogeneous, and not assessed for effectiveness. In this study we compared the educational effects of three geriatric post-graduate training methods on…

Argues that concentrating upon the intent of a speaker is more important than upon the precision with which prescribed terminology is utilized. (JK)

Outlines a mode of speech that practices simplification of language through the use of short words. (MD)

Syntactic attempts to account for preferred adjective order are rejected in favor of hypotheses integrating semantic and syntactic aspects of the phenomenon in a psycholinguistic framework. (Author/FWB)

The results of the experiment reported here indicate that changes in meaning are more often recognized than changes in wording in concrete sentences but that the reverse is true in the case of abstract sentences. (Author/FWB)

The author discusses general semantics in terms of isomorphism, or one-to-one relationships. He claims that language or any part of it cannot be said to be isomorphic. The article is geared to the semantic theoretician. (MS)

Suggests that many kinds of aphasic errors demonstrate what slips-of-the-tongue do, and that the study of aphasia can shed light on normal language processes. (Author/BK)