An experienced children's writer and teacher argues for the right balance of the richly strange and comfortably familiar in books for young children. (HOD)

Argues that the ideal classroom for language development would be (1) active and interactive, (2) collaborative, (3) functional and purposive, (4) exploratory, (5) reflective, (6) multimodal, (7) negotiated, (8) contextually supportive, (9) observed and tracked, (10) experienced based, (11) text aware, (12) conceptually demanding, (13) unbounded,…

Provides suggestions for helping student writers deal with predication. (FL)

Two essays explore scholarly opinions on the use of the generic pronoun "he" and discuss guidelines for avoiding its use in expository writing. (HTH)

Describes the methodology and results of a study to examine the feasibility of applying business communication and journalism guidelines on sex discrimination in evaluating in-house corporate newsletters. Suggests that a degree of editorial awareness of potential bias has been achieved, although a few areas of linguistic sexism remain. (HTH)

Decries the use of wordy, inflated prose by writers who should know better. (AEA)

Takes exception to some of the language used in the Bullock Report, especially in relation to some of the assumptions about helping parents talk to their children. (RB)

Evaluates an article published in Newsweek magazine called "Why Johnny Can't Write" and its appeal for a return to basic education. Attempts to show that the article is a prejudicial and misleading account of the problem. (Author/RK)

It has usually been psycholinguistics which has accommodated itself to alterations within linguistic formulations, but now there is a growing independence on the part of many psychologists in the study of language. The shift in emphasis is from competence to performance. (POP)

This article examines research done in Switzerland on languages in contact, and concludes that the limited amount of such research is due to the fact that the various languages spoken in Switzerland are spoken in adjacent areas in which bilingualism is rare. (Text is in French.) (CDSH/CLK)

J. L. Dillard's contention that Black English is a language unto itself spoken by 80 percent of American blacks is argued by a black professor of English who notes the correlation between an individual's destiny in competitive American society and that individual's destiny in competitive American society and that individual's powers of…

The author explores positive and negative functions of euphemisms in educational writings and concludes that they are necessary at times since complete clarity and certainty are unattainable. (GW)

Shows that using the German "tust du malen?" to teach the English construction "do you (paint, etc.)?" is wrong; the construction can also mean "are you painting?" So "tust du --?" fits only those English verbs which never use progressive tense forms. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

This paper explores how one facet of the process by which ideology about linguistic variation originates and circulates. It analyzes an archive consisting of newspaper articles from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, about Pittsburgh speech, the earliest of which is from 1910. The articles began appearing regularly during the 1950s-60s. First, the paper…

Providing grades 4-6 students with practice and reinforcement in editing for capitalization, grammar, spelling, vocabulary, usage, and content, this computer software program contains over 30 written accounts that have been sequenced from easier to more difficult. The program has 3 levels of play: beginning, intermediate, and advanced. At each…