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Education and language scholars look at the interrelationships between developments in the three dimensions. They deal not only with English, but the Singapore's other official languages of Chinese, Malay, and Tamil; draw on empirical research of the past decade; encompass a range of perspectives, including classroom pedagogy; and deal with the language need both of the school-going population and working adults. The 16 essays of the 1994 edition have grown to 20, but of those, eight are completely new. There is still no index. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)