DEVELOPING ADVANCED LITERACY IN FIRST AND SECOND LANGUAGES: MEANING
WITH POWER. Mary J. Schleppegrell and M. Cecilia Colombi
(Eds.). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2002. Pp. x + 274. $69.95 cloth,
$29.95 paper.
This volume is an edited collection of essays that was based on a
conference organized at the University of California, Davis in 2000. It
consists of a preface and 13 chapters. The editors have managed to
assemble a respectable and versatile group of contributors:
Celce-Murcia, Baugh, Gee, García, Lemke, Martin, Christie,
Merino and Hammond, Ramanathan, and Scarcella. These contributors,
because of their varied backgrounds, guarantee a well-rounded account
of literacy development from the viewpoints of functional linguistics,
sociocultural theory, and SLA.