Discusses the importance of childrens' services in the public library in helping to meet many of the concerns and problems in our society. (CHC)

Relates the shared whole language experiences of a native college student majoring in education and a third-grade Korean student who was learning English, concluding that both learned from the experiencing-writing-reading activities. (DD)

A letter to parents, from an English department chairman, suggesting leisure reading and language activities for high school students and their families. (SJL)

Questions pedagogical frameworks that perpetuate semantic properties and representations of meanings that no longer hold true in changing classroom realities. Proposes the need for learning new languages, for speaking through a more dialogical, metonymic back and forth movement in the discourse of classrooms. (PM)

Outlines a direct teaching approach that helps students apply their English-as-a-Second-Language knowledge and reading skills to second language reading tasks. The approach helps students to develop reading strategies to solve such second-language reading problems as unfamiliar words or an inflexible reading style. (Author/CB)

Discusses the educational relevance of using authentic texts in second language instruction, explores their limitations as a means to cultural competence, and describes their relation to the quest for cultural understanding and communicative competence. An explanation is provided for why such materials should be used to achieve these goals. (CB)

An exploration of the connection between literature and the visual arts and its application in the foreign language literature class includes an illustration of how a medieval literary Spanish masterpiece becomes more clear when the text is compared with medieval pictorial art pieces. (four references) (Author/CB)

Results suggest that the mother-infant-sibling interactive context differs in important ways from the mother-infant dyadic context. The mother-infant-sibling interactive context is a richer language learning environment than previously supposed. (GLR)

Presents a personal account of how haiku can be used with primary students not only to explore language arts but also to share a love of the earth and its various peoples. (HTH)

Children who are deaf or hard-of-hearing (DHH) are particularly vulnerable for later reading problems. This article describes the use of experience books, associated with the Language Experience Approach (LEA), as a motivating and linguistically appropriate literacy tool for young children who are DHH. The authors explain how remediation…

Some Grade 4 educators have expressed feelings of ineptitude regarding the support of ESL (English Second Language) learners with limited English proficiency as they do not know how to support these learners effectively. Their litany emphasises ESL educators' need for supportive and preventive intervention. A story-based Language Enrichment…

This study examines the process of Japanese language maintenance or shift among children who were exposed to Japanese and English through the "one parent-one language" approach in Melbourne. The aim was to identify factors that correlate with successful and unsuccessful cases of Japanese language maintenance of such children. The data…

This booklet relates ways to communicate with preschoolers about such phenomena as Ninja Turtles. Ninja Turtles are likeable, fun-loving creatures that have captured the imagination of children because they have a great deal of energy, strength, and power. However, because the turtles model language and engage in violence that negatively affects…

Aspects of the spoken language development of the preschool and primary school child are briefly covered, with specific attention given to receptive and expressive language, semantics, syntax, memory, articulation, pragmatics, and metalanguage. Developmental norms are indicated in the areas of vocabulary development, sentence structure…

Picture song books can be used to enhance language arts skills. (JH)