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• Singapore Book World Volume 24 1994
• Singapore Book World Volume 25 1995
• Singapore Book World Volume 26 1996
• Singapore Book World Volume 27 1997


• Foreword
  By S. Gopinathan

• Introduction
  By Maureen Khoo

• Opening Address
  By Aline Wong

• Keynote Address: Literacy and Biliteracy in Asia
  By Marie M. Clay

• Keynote Address: Language Teaching and Cross-cultural Communication
  By Ng Seok Moi

• Achieving Biliteracy in a Bilingual Education System
  By Gary M. Jones (Brunei)

• From Oral Tradition to Children’s Literature: Brunei Genre
  By Elizabeth M. Liew (Brunei)

• Alphabetic Biliteracy Among Children in China
  By Kate Allen and John Ingulsrud

• Integrating for Effective Learning
  By Rebecca Mok, Linda Sandosham and Lay See Neufeld (Singapore)

• How Beginning Reading Theories Account for Second Language Reading:
  Implications for Teaching Word Recognition and Reading and for Pedagogical
  Research in Second Language Reading
  By Sophie Hsia (Hong Kong)

• Literacy and Networked Computers
  By Lloyd Holliday (Australia)

• Literacy for Economic Development: The Case for Hong Kong
  By Agnes Lam (Hong Kong)

• Biliteracy in Monolingual Rural Settings: A Look at Transition
  and Bridging Literacy Programmes in Eastern Indonesia
  By Kay Ringenberg (Indonesia)

• Children Performing Literacy: A Socio-Cultural Analysis
  Of Literacy in a Rural Classroom in India
  By Urvashi Sahni (India)

• Notes on Contributors