This newsletter seeks to promote the concept of bilingual-bicultural education. Among its articles are "Arguments Against Bilingual Education,""Portuguese Reading Materials on Parade,""A Spanish Omnibus," and "Carrascolendas Makes Debut on Educational Television." There are announcements of the opening of a Portuguese materials resource center in…

Concludes that lessons emphasizing pereferred interests improve functionally illiterate adults' silent reading information recall skills and interpretation of word meanings from context. Suggests that greater attention be devoted to using preferred interest materials in adult reading instruction. (RL)

The study of French Canadian culture should occupy a central position in the learning of French. An integrated approach would involve the following elements: (1) short, intensive readings which treat important aspects of French-Canadian culture; (2) dialogues derived from the readings; and (3) exercises which accompany both the dialogue and the…

Describes a 10-week reading program that paired students and parents as reading partners. Concludes that the program was successful because the children's reading scores improved measurably and parents felt the program was worthwhile. (SRT)

Parents are encouraged to read stories to their young hearing-impaired children because it encourages language development, motivates the child, promotes growth of reading skills, and provides positive personal interaction. Principles to guide parents in reading and discussing stories with hearing-impaired children are enumerated and book…

A study of genre fiction classification used circulation data and a patron questionnaire to test whether physically separating fiction into categories will increase use; marking spines with category labels will increase use; use of classified fiction will increase with library size; and classification will increase the number of different books…

Investigates the degree to which instruction in teachers' manuals relates to the stories in basal readers. Finds that the instruction in teachers' manuals relates to children's stories less than 33% of the time. (SKC)

Forty Israeli teachers of normal and hearing-impaired students (grades 3 and 6) ranked relative linguistic complexity for several versions of the same story and from them selected reading texts for their classes. Ranking tasks were performed similarly, but teachers of hearing-impaired students chose a far more limited range of texts. (Author/VW)

Provides various definitions of censorship; describes a case of censorship in New Brunswick, Canada; explains what happens to materials that have been challenged; and provides a challenged materials policy and a list of books that have been challenged in Canada. (SRT)

Presents the results of a survey which found that: (1) the current treatment of language, generally concentrating on the factual and informative at the expense of the imaginative, is creating its own brand of linguistic deprivation; and (2) this is particularly noticeable in foreign language teaching. (SED)

Discusses the difficulties connected with preparing students to read "the classics" for pleasure. (EL)

Presents the annual list of reading choices of approximately 350 tenth through twelfth graders from among newly published books. Shows that the most popular category for reading was contemporary realism. (EL)

Argues that English teachers should expose students to the craft of play production. Suggests building a drama unit from the production approach and presents an example of such a unit. (FL)

Provides an annotated bibliography of sources that will help teachers select materials and structure activities in oral interpretation, readers theatre, improvisation, and creative speaking for the English classroom. (MM)