Learning English : development and diversity / edited by Neil Mercer and Joan Swann.

Incluye bibliografía.

Introduction / Joan Swann -- 1. English as a first language / Dennis Bancroft -- Reading A. Language addressed to children: linguistic and cultural aspects / Elena V. M. Lieven -- Reading B. The child´s expanding social world / Michelle E. Barton and Michael Tomasello -- 2. English in the repertoire / Barbara Mayor -- Reading A. Raising our twins bilingually / Sylvia Rojas-Drummond and Hugh Drummond -- 3. Learning to read and write in English / Pam Czerniewska -- Reading A. Some lessons learnt at bedtime / Henrietta Dombey -- Reading B. What´s in a story? / Gordon Wells -- 4. English as a classroom language / Neil Mercer and Douglas Barnes -- Reading A. One cup of newspaper and one cup of tea / G. D. Jayalakshmi -- Reading B. Arguments for and against English as a medium of instruction / Josef Schmied -- Reading C. Teaching writing: process or genre? / Janet Maybin -- 5. A history of English teaching / A. K. Pugh --^

Reading A. Culture in rhetorical styles: contrastive rhetoric and world Englishes / Yamuna Kachru -- Reading B. Some language problems faced by overseas students in British universities / Tony Bex.

Reading A. English and Empire: teaching English in nineteenth-century India / Anthea Fraser Gupta -- Reading B. The Corresponding Societies: working-class literacy and political reform / Colin Lankshear and Maria Lawler -- Reading C. The development of a ´national curriculum´ for English in England and Wales / Sue Brindley -- 6. Issues in English teaching / Sue Brindley and Joan Swann -- Reading A. Different voices in the English classroom / Stuart Middleton -- Reading B. Reading: an infant school´s perspective / Lorraine Dawes -- Reading C. Learning written genres / J. R. Martin, Frances Christie and Joan Rothery -- 7. English for speakers of other languages / Jill Bourne -- Reading A. English for speakers of other languages: which varieties of English for which groups of learners? / Christopher Brumfit -- Reading B. Dilemmas of a textbook writer / Neville Grant -- 8. English in the academic world / Elizabeth Hoadley-Maidment and Neil Mercer --^