Volume 3, Number 3 — September 1998 A Word from the Editors… Articles Data-collecting on Reading-writing Strategies: A Comparison of Instruments: A Case Study; Adina Levine and Thea Reves (16 Pgs) Increasing students’ awareness of genre through text transformation exercises: An old classroom activity revisited; Tim Caudery (21 Pgs) Forum Teacher Evaluations; Maggie Sokolik, Compiler On the Internet Macromedia’s “Design in Motion Suite” Reviewed; Jim Duber Conference Watcher Listings as of October 1998;Current version direct from Roy Cochrun’s web site Reviews Textbooks Bowen, Tim (1997), Build Your Business Grammar; and MacKenzie, Ian (1997), Management and Marketing; Reviewed by Brett Berquist Delk, Cheryl L. (1997), Discovering American Culture; Reviewed by Helen Huntley Kluger-Bell, Barry and the School for the Exploratorium (1995), The Exploratorium Guide to Scale and Structure; Reviewed by Dan Janes Martinez, Ron (1997), Conversation Lessons: The Natural Language of Conversation; Reviewed by Nicole Décuré Remacha Esteras, Santiago (1996), InfoTech: English for Computer Users; Reviewed by Michael Vallance Seal, Bernard (1997), Academic Encounters: Reading, Study Skills, and Writing. Content Focus: Human Behavior; Reviewed by Clark A. Richardson Smalzer, William. R. (1997), Write To Be Read: Reading, Reflection and Writing; Reviewed by Rupert Herington Williamson, Julia A.and Jill C. Vincent (1996), Film is Content: A Study Guide for the Advanced ESL Classroom; Reviewed by Sorel Friedman Teacher Resource Books Dyson, Anne Haas with the San Francisco East Bay Teacher Study Group (1997), What Difference Does Difference Make? Teacher Reflections on Diversity, Literacy, and the Urban Primary School; Reviewed by Arif Altun Hewitt, Ian E. (1996), Edutainment: How to Teach Language With Fun and Games; Reviewed by Dieter Kranz Hill, Jimmie and Michael Lewis (1997), Dictionary of Selected Collocations; Reviewed by Nicolas R. Cueto Routman, Regie (1996), Literacy at the Crossroads: Crucial Talk About Reading, Writing, and Other Teaching Dilemmas; Reviewed by John Graney Tucker, Amy (1995), Decoding ESL: International Students in the American College Classroom; Reviewed by Margi L. Wald Language Acquisition and Bilingualism Lvovich, Natasha (1997), The Multilingual Self : An Inquiry into Language Learning; Reviewed by Tim Caudery Morgan, James L. & Katherine Demuth (Eds.) (1996), Signal to Syntax: Bootstrapping from Speech to Grammar in Early Acquisition; andSokolov, Jeffrey L. & Catherine E. Snow (Eds.) (1994), Handbook of Research in Language Development Using CHILDES; andBudwig, Nancy (1995), A Developmental-Functionalist Approach to Child Language; Reviewed by Marion Myhill Sociolinguistics Torres, Lourdes (1997), Puerto Rican Discourse: A Sociolinguistic Study of a New York Suburb; Reviewed by Alicia Pousada Response to a Previous Review Comments on ‘Talk about It! An Integrated Approach to Bold, Dynamic Topics’; by Melinda Sayavedra, co-author; andReviewer’s Response; by Nicole Décuré
