Articles
Assessing the Metacognitive Growth of ESL Student Writers; Loretta F. Kasper (20 Pgs)
english or English? Attitudes, Local Varieties and English Language Teaching; John Norrish (14 Pgs)
First and Second Language Use in Reading Comprehension Strategies of Japanese ESL Students; Thomas A. Upton (27 Pgs)
On the Internet
The Paperless Classroom?; Thomas N. Robb
Media Reviews
EF International’s “Englishtown; Maggie Sokolik
Conference Watcher
Listings as of November 1997;
Current version direct from Roy Cochrun’s web site |
Reviews
Textbooks
Ardó, Z., R. Bardgett, J. Clemence, K. Dameron, and D. L. Smith (1996), Management English Listening; Reviewed by Timea Szentesi
Becijos, Jeanne B (1995), Global Views: A Multicultural Reader with Language Exercises; Reviewed by Sorel Friedman
Kadden, Judi (1996), Traveling Through Idioms: An Exercise Guide to the World of American Idioms; Reviewed by Stan Johnson
King, Kevin (1997), Taking Sides: A Speaking Text for Advanced and Intermediate Students; Reviewed by Ken Klippenstein
Irene E. Schoenberg (1994), Focus on Grammar: A Basic Course for Reference and Practice;
Marjorie Fuchs and Miriam Westheimer, with Margaret Bonner (1994), Focus on Grammar: An Intermediate Course for Reference and Practice;
Marjorie Fuchs and Margaret Bonner (1995), Focus on Grammar: A High-Intermediate Course for Reference and Practice;
Jay Maurer (1995), Focus on Grammar: An Advanced Course for Reference and Practice;
Reviewed by Nicole Decuré
Phillips, Deborah (1996), Longman Introductory Course for the TOEFL Test
Longman Preparation Course for the TOEFL Test; Reviewed by Helen Huntley
Price, Planaria J. (1997), Open Sesame: Understanding American English and Culture through Folktales and Stories; Cheol-Houn Lee
Tinajero, Josefina Villamil and Alfredo Schifini (1997), Into English!; Reviewed by Suzanne Irujo
Teacher Resource Books
Gibbons, Pauline (1993), Learning to Learn in a Second Language; Reviewed by Rafael Salaberry
Lewis, Michael (1997), Implementing the Lexical Approach: Putting Theory into Practice; Reviewed by Dieter Kranz
Mindt, Dieter (1995), An Empirical Grammar of the English Verb: Modal Verbs; Reviewed by Terry Wynne
Nuttall, Christine (1996), Teaching Reading Skills in a Foreign Language; Reviewed by John M. Graney
Wiley, Terrence (1996), Literacy and Language Diversity in the United States; Reviewed by Beth T. Lewis
Second Language Acquisition
Gass, Susan M. (1997), Input, Interaction, and the Second Language Learner; Reviewed by Malcolm A. Finney
Other
Language, Reason and Argument; Warburton, Nigel (1996), Thinking from A to Z; and Thomson, Anne (1996), Critical Reasoning; Reviewed by Zsuzsanna Ardó
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