^ ^ ^ ^ a l m Beach County, FL, well-known as the winter home of ^ ^ V s o m e of our country's wealthiest families, is p o m e t i m e s called the "golf capital of the world." But there is I a lesser-known side to this county of 1.3 million residents, in which 15 percent of the children live in poverty and nearly 19 percent of all residents are uninsured. Because many Palm Beach Countians are...

The Problem: With recent advances in computer and Internet technology, people have access to more information than ever before. As the amount of information grows, so does the problem of finding what one is looking for. We believe that the most natural form of communication and information access for humans is natural language. We propose to address the growing information access problem with a...

a community of practice may shape and reshape the identity of members of the community through providing them with situated learning or learning environment. this study, therefore, is to clarify the salient learning-based features of the language teaching community of practice that might formulate the identity of language teachers. to this end, the study examined how learning situations in two ...