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PROSPECT AND RETROSPECT: SELECTED ESSAYS OF JAMES BRITTON, edited by Gordon M.
Fiction in Education and Education in Fiction : DEVELOPING RESPONSE TO FICTION, by Robert Protherough
Writing With Readers: A researcher learns to write: Selected articles and monographs by Donald Graves
Literacy from Hamburgers : AWAKENING TO LITERACY, edited by Hillel Goelman, Antoinette Oberg and Frank Smith     

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Book Reviews in this article: Through a Glass Darkly Teachers as Researchers The Talk Workshop Group 1982 What Can Coursework Achieve? Coursework in English Seven case Studies. ed. Patrick Scott Those Who Fail Gone Fishing Ironic Mysteries The Nature of Writing Learning to Write: Gunther Kress. 205 pages. Routledge and Kegan Paul     

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Who Owns The Text?: VERSIONS OF ENGLISH, by Douglas and Dorothy Barnes with Stephen Clarke, Heinemann Are We All Still Probationers in Teaching Talk?: ENCOURAGING TALK, by Lewis Knowles, Methuen INVESTIGATING TALK IN CUMBRIAN CLASSROOMS, editor Robin Acland, (Schools Council Programme 3), Longman Marking as a Means of Teaching …: MARKING AND ASSESSMENT IN ENGLISH By Pauline Chater, Methuen (Teaching Secondary English series) Learning From Mums: YOUNG CHILDREN LEARNING - TALKING AND THINKING AT HOME AND AT SCHOOL, by Barbara Tizard and Martin Hughes, Fontana A Book For HMI: HE DEVELOPMENT OF IMAGINATIVE WRITING, Helen Cowie (ed.), Croom Helm     

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Looking for Reflections of Identity NEWS FOR BABYLON: THE CHATTO BOOK OF WESTINDIAN-BRITISH POETRY, edited by James Berry, Chatto and Windus
Chain OF DAYS, by James Berry, Oxford University Press
New Relationships, New Identities Challenging racism, ALTARF Collective     

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Digging Rosegarden and Labyrinth by Seonaid M. Robertson
Filling the Gap Language Across The Transition: by Martin Creasey
WAYS WITH WORDS: LANGUAGE, LIFE AND WORK IN COMMUNITIES AND CLASSROOMS by Shirley Brice Heath.     

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Notions of Purpose in Reading THE EFFECTIVE USE OF READING: edited by E. Lunzer and K. Gardner.
Linguistic Study without Linguistics LANGUAGE PROJECTS: an Introduction to the Study of Language: Sandra Harris and Ken Morgan.
A Way of Thinking, a Style of Inquiry ERRORS AND EXPECTATIONS: Mina P. Shaughnessy. 312 pages hardback.
Communication and Control THE LANGUAGE OF TEACHING: A. D. Edwards and V. J. Furlong.     

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Irritations and Eccentricities, Vision and Power: ENGLISH FOR MEANING: David Holbrook Keohane poses questions for NATE: PROPOSALS FOR A CERTIFICATE OF EXTENDED EDUCATION. Finger on the Problem: SCHOOLS COUNCIL ENGLISH 16–19 PROJECT: EDUCATION 16–19—THE ROLE OF ENGLISH AND COMMUNICATION. John Dixon. Fundamental Change of Life: FIFTEEN THOUSAND HOURS. Michael Rutter, Barbara Maughan, Peter Mortimore and Janet Ouston. Will Linguistics and English ever speak to each other?: LANGUAGE, READING AND LEARNING. Asher Cashdan, editor.     

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Choosing 'China and Me': FINDING A LANGUAGE—Autonomy and Learning in Schools: Peter Medway.
Frequency of Gobbledegook: Readability in the Classroom: Colin Harrison.
Suspending judgement in a social context: TEACHING ABOUT TELEVISION: Len Masterman.     

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Book Reviews in this article:
A Kind of Slavery NELLA LAST'S WAR edited by Richard Broad and Suzie Fleming
Interesting People, Dreadful Hosts MIKE TORBE
Reading Quietly in your Head GORDON HODGEON     

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Book Reviews in this article: English as Metaphor ENGLISH WITHIN THE ARTS: Peter Abbs Unity of Policy Post-16? Expanding The Cultural Reach another way of telling: John Berger and Jean Mohr A Clearing of the Ground CONTINUITY IN secondary English: David Jackson Which Books for Children? The signal review of CHILDREN'S BOOKS l: edited by Nancy Chambers