Three processes in the child's acquisition of syntax / Roger Brown, Ursula Bellugi -- Preschool children's knowledge of English phonology / Charles Read -- Stages in language development and reading exposure / Carol Chomsky -- Language in thinking and learning : pedagogy and the new Whorfian framework / Penny Lee -- The nature of literacy : an historical exploration / Daniel P. Resnick, Lauren B. Resnick -- From utterance to text : the bias of language in speech and writing / David R. Olson -- Literacy and language : relationships during the preschool years / Catherine E. Snow -- Literacy without schooling : testing for intellectual effects / Sylvia Scribner, Michael Cole -- Literacy learning and economic change / Deborah Brandt -- Trends in second language acquisition research / Kenji Hakuta, Herlinda Cancino -- Late immersion and language of instruction in Hong Kong high schools : achievement growth in language and nonlanguage subjects / Herbert W. Marsh, Kit-Tai Hau, Chit-Kwong Kong -- Challenging venerable assumptions : literacy instruction for linguistically different students / María de la Luz Reyes -- Writing development : a neglected variable in the consideration of phonological awareness / Sofía A. Vernon, Emilia Ferreiro -- The adult literacy process as cultural action for freedom / Paulo Freire -- Hearing other voices : a critical assessment of popular views on literacy and work / Glynda Hull -- Toward a social-contextual approach to family literacy / Elsa Roberts Auerbach -- Reading the world of school literacy : contextualizing the experience of a young African American male / Arlette Ingram Willis -- Why the "monkeys passage" bombed : tests, genres, and teaching / Bonny Norton, Pippa Stein