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Communication in Action integrates the language arts--speaking, listening, viewing, reading, and writing--into a total curriculum that centers around children's literature. The text includes ideas for using literature to teach language skills across the curriculum, and a planning resource handbook at the end of the text that helps teachers create lesson plans, select children's books, and evaluate software options.

Examines nontraditional paths toward working in technology and English studies, discussing different ways of attaining a career in such areas as computer-assisted language learning and literary and linguistic computing.