Presents ten categories which illustrate the range of the uses of language, and discusses implications for instruction. (DD)

Contains an interview with journalist Edwin Newman in which Newman urges that students be taught to use language with greater precision, and a response to Newman by John S. Mayher and Rita S. Brause. (DD)

To benefit rather than suffer from language, we must keep it in its place, in balance with other functions of the organism. (DD)

Argues that the purpose of school--of language and the language arts--is to empower children as public individuals, to give them tools to express their own visions of the world in the public arena. (RAE)

Language arts teachers must be trained to make the English language the central core of their teaching. (DD)

Urges that children be taught the range of language uses as they occur in society and that they be taught to cope with the communications media. (DD)

A teacher's experience with an eight-year-old child named Aaron that pushes her understanding of language, literacy and culture to a different level is presented. This thrice-learned lesson details her professional journey of continual transformation by revisiting a story as a kindergarten teacher, a graduate student and a teacher educator.