Articles
Data-collecting on Reading-writing Strategies: A Comparison of Instruments: A Case Study; Adina Levine and Thea Reves (16 Pgs)
Increasing students’ awareness of genre through text transformation exercises: An old classroom activity revisited; Tim Caudery (21 Pgs)
Forum
Teacher Evaluations; Maggie Sokolik, Compiler
On the Internet
Macromedia’s “Design in Motion Suite” Reviewed; Jim Duber
Conference Watcher
Listings as of October 1998;
Current version direct from Roy Cochrun’s web site |
Reviews
Textbooks
Bowen, Tim (1997), Build Your Business Grammar; and MacKenzie, Ian (1997), Management and Marketing; Reviewed by Brett Berquist
Delk, Cheryl L. (1997), Discovering American Culture; Reviewed by Helen Huntley
Kluger-Bell, Barry and the School for the Exploratorium (1995), The Exploratorium Guide to Scale and Structure; Reviewed by Dan Janes
Martinez, Ron (1997), Conversation Lessons: The Natural Language of Conversation; Reviewed by Nicole Décuré
Remacha Esteras, Santiago (1996), InfoTech: English for Computer Users; Reviewed by Michael Vallance
Seal, Bernard (1997), Academic Encounters: Reading, Study Skills, and Writing. Content Focus: Human Behavior; Reviewed by Clark A. Richardson
Smalzer, William. R. (1997), Write To Be Read: Reading, Reflection and Writing; Reviewed by Rupert Herington
Williamson, Julia A.and Jill C. Vincent (1996), Film is Content: A Study Guide for the Advanced ESL Classroom; Reviewed by Sorel Friedman
Teacher Resource Books
Dyson, Anne Haas with the San Francisco East Bay Teacher Study Group (1997), What Difference Does Difference Make? Teacher Reflections on Diversity, Literacy, and the Urban Primary School; Reviewed by Arif Altun
Hewitt, Ian E. (1996), Edutainment: How to Teach Language With Fun and Games; Reviewed by Dieter Kranz
Hill, Jimmie and Michael Lewis (1997), Dictionary of Selected Collocations; Reviewed by Nicolas R. Cueto
Routman, Regie (1996), Literacy at the Crossroads: Crucial Talk About Reading, Writing, and Other Teaching Dilemmas; Reviewed by John Graney
Tucker, Amy (1995), Decoding ESL: International Students in the American College Classroom; Reviewed by Margi L. Wald
Language Acquisition and Bilingualism
Lvovich, Natasha (1997), The Multilingual Self : An Inquiry into Language Learning; Reviewed by Tim Caudery
Morgan, James L. & Katherine Demuth (Eds.) (1996), Signal to Syntax: Bootstrapping from Speech to Grammar in Early Acquisition; and
Sokolov, Jeffrey L. & Catherine E. Snow (Eds.) (1994), Handbook of Research in Language Development Using CHILDES; and
Budwig, Nancy (1995), A Developmental-Functionalist Approach to Child Language; Reviewed by Marion Myhill
Sociolinguistics
Torres, Lourdes (1997), Puerto Rican Discourse: A Sociolinguistic Study of a New York Suburb; Reviewed by Alicia Pousada
Response to a Previous Review
Comments on ‘Talk about It! An Integrated Approach to Bold, Dynamic Topics’; by Melinda Sayavedra, co-author; and
Reviewer’s Response; by Nicole Décuré
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