Volume 12, Number 1, 1998

Catherine Elder and Alan Davies

Performance on ESL Examinations: Is There a Language Distance Effect?.......1

Elisabeth Gfeller and Clinton Robinson

Which Language for Teaching? The Cultural Messages Transmitted by the Languages Used in Education.......18

Eve Gregory

Siblings as Mediators of Literacy in Linguistic Minority Communities.......33

Charlotte Yonge and Andrew Stables

'I am It the Clown': Problematising the Distinction Between 'Off Task' and 'On Task' Classroom Talk.......55

Book Reviews.......71