TABLE OF CONTENTS QUARTERLY Volume 29, Number 2 ❑ Summer 1995 A ]ournal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect Editor SANDRA McKAY, San Francisco State University Research Issues Editor DONNA M. JOHNSON, University of Arizona Brief Reports and Summaries Editors GRAHAM CROOKES and KATHRYN A. DAVIS, University of Hawaii at Manoa Review Editor H. DOUGLAS BROWN, San Francisco State University Assistant Editors MARILYN KUPETZ and ELLEN GARSHICK, TESOL Central Office Editorial Assistant CATHERINE HARTMAN, San Francisco State University Georgetown University Editorial Advisory Board Lyle Bachman, University of California, Los Angeles Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig, Indiana Unversity Ellen Block, Baruch College Anna Uhl Chamot, Keith Chick, University of Natal Deborah Curtis, San Francisco State University Zoltán Dörnyei, Etövös University Sandra Fotos, Senshu University Sharon Hilles, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Nancy Hornberger, University of Pennsylvania Donna M. Johnson, University of Arizona Patsy M. Lightbown, Concordia University Brian Lynch, University of Melbourne Mary McGroarty, Northern Arizona University Bonny Norton Peirce, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education Patricia Porter, San Francisco State University Kamal Sridhar, State University of New York Vivian Zamel, University of Massachusetts Additional Readers Elsa Auerbach, Ellen Block, Joan G. Carson, Rod Ellis, Sandra Fotos, Eli Hinkel, B. Kumaravadivelu, Michael H. Long, May Shih, Ruth Spack, Jean Turner, Vivian Zamel Credits Advertising arranged b Jennifer Delett, TESOL Central Office, Alexandria, Virginia Typesetting by, World Composition Services, Inc. Printing and binding by Pantagraph Printing, Bloomington, Illinois Copies of articles that appear in the TESOL Quarterly are available through The Genuine Article ® , 3501 Market Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 U.S.A. Copyright © 1995 Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc US ISSN 0039-8322