Literacy

This is one of two volumes by the same editors that explore historical, philosophical, and cultural perspectives on literacy in China.

This book offers a comprehensive view of multimodal composing and literacies in multilingual contexts for ESL and EFL education in United States of America and globally.

Pro(se)letariets documents through memoir, poetry, and fiction a two year conversation held between working class writers in Syracuse, New York, and the Federation of Worker Writers and Community Publishers, United Kingdom, on how class background affected their education and career goals.

An accessible resource for busy teachers, this informative book sets the stage for using technology effectively in the literacy classroom.

This is the first hands-on methods guide for second-language (L2) reading research.

This practical book provides explicit instructions for teaching sentence-level skills to students who have difficulties in this area.

A reflective and practical guide for secondary school teachers on using innovative technologies in the classroom to support multimodal literacy development.

Landmark Essays on Rhetorics of Difference challenges the Eurocentric perspective from which the field of rhetoric is traditionally viewed.

This book addresses issues surrounding writing centers in the Arabian Gulf region.

Winner of the 2018 Outstanding Book by the Michigan Council Teachers of EnglishChoice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2018Winner of the 2017 AERA Division K (Teaching and Teacher Education) Exemplary Research AwardThis book draws upon a queer literacy framework to map out examples for teaching literacy across pre-K-12 schooling.

This book presents children's literature as a platform for learning and helping young readers develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to thrive in an interconnected and diverse global society.

By focusing on the textually mediated reactions of local residents, social movements, and media producers to policy changes implemented in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, this book studies the development of literacy as a tool to mobilize, perform, and disseminate protest.

This volume promotes a thought-provoking discussion on contemporary issues surrounding the teaching of language and literacy based on first hand experiences and research.

This book argues the importance of aesthetic literacies in learning and teaching in schools for future work.

This book specifies the foundation for Adapted Primary Literature (APL), a novel text genre that enables the learning and teaching of science using research articles that were adapted to the knowledge level of high-school students.

In this third, fully revised edition, the 10 volume Encyclopedia of Language and Education offers the newest developments, including an entirely new volume of research and scholarly content, essential to the field of language teaching and learning in the age of globalization.

The main objective of this book is to provide a comprehensive review on stem cells and their role in tissue regeneration, homeostasis and therapy.

This book addresses a significant gap in the research literature on transitions across the school years: the continuities and discontinuities in school literacy education and their implications for practice.

In keeping with the authors' belief that the hands-on word sorting approach to word study is invaluable to teachers and students alike, this volume presents a complete curriculum of word study for students who are in the syllables and affixes stage of spelling development.

This book provides a rich and nuanced examination of children learning to read and write a second language in primary schools in Kenya, taught by teachers who themselves have often learned English as a second or third language.

This book broadens the scope and impact of digital storytelling in higher education.

Studying Shakespeare in the high school classroom can and sometimes should begin with images and film.

Critical Thinking provides language teachers with a dynamic framework for encouraging critical thinking skills in explicit, systematic ways during their lessons.

This book provides a comprehensive review of the current knowledge on writing and publishing scientific research papers and the social contexts.

Timely, thoughtful, and comprehensive, this text directly supports pre-service and in-service teachers in developing curriculum and instruction that both addresses and exceeds the requirements of the Common Core State Standards.

This book proposes to expand multiliteracies frameworks in second language education, by recognizing that learning a new language and culture involves both designs and desires, the affects and emotions that feed our responses to particular ways of making meaning.

Ziel der vorliegenden Studie ist es, im Rahmen der Institution Schule Möglichkeiten literarischer Bildung zu eruieren.

This practitioner resource and course text has given thousands of K-12 teachers evidence-based tools for helping students--particularly those at risk for reading difficulties--understand and acquire new knowledge from text.

Classrooms are increasingly multicultural in their social composition, and students are increasingly connected, through digital media, to local and global networks.

This book shows how depictions of etymology were used by twelfth-century poets, translators, bureaucrats and historians to portray Britain''s past.

This introduction to the expanding field of literacy studies has been fully revised for the second edition.

This book explores a spectrum of literacies relevant to dance, physical education and sports.

Approaching academic assignments as practical controversies, this book offers a novel approach to the study of digital literacy.

The book pursues the goal of exploring and strengthening a dialogical approach of communication and cognition.

Corpus Linguistics for Writing Development provides a practical introduction to using corpora in the study of first and second language learners' written language over time and across different levels of proficiency.

This book shows connections between oral story listening and unique, enduring educational effects in and outside of the classroom.

This volume dedicated to Dorit Ravid, offers 29 new chapters on the multiple facets of spoken and written language learning and usage from a group of illustrious scholars and scientists, focusing on typologically different languages and anchored in a variety of communicative settings.

By the co-author of Language Online, this book builds on the earlier work while focusing on multilingualism in the digital world.

This edited volume unpacks the familiar concepts of language, literacy and learning, and promotes dialogue and bridge building within and across these concepts.

This edited volume demonstrates how an educational linguistics approach to inquiry is well positioned to identify, examine, and theorize the language and literacy dimensions of refugee-background learners' experiences.

Postmodernism, as a mode of the contemporary short story, has been clearly established and recognized by short story theorists.

Women's literacy is often assumed to be the key to promoting better health, family planning and nutrition in the developing world.

This book illustrates the latest developments in literacy and language assessment in the digital context, and subsequently presents a rigorous validation study on a newly proposed form of assessment (scenario-based assessment, SBA) that seeks to respond to the contextual change of literacy activities.

With millions of people becoming multilingual writers in the globalized digital world, this book helps to empower writers to connect with their readers and project their identities effectively across languages, social contexts, and genres.

Based on the Adult Literacy and Life Skills survey conducted in Bermuda, Canada, Italy, Mexico (Nuevo Leon), Norway, and the United States of America in 2003 and 2004, this book presents an initial set of findings that shed new light on the twin processes of skill gain and loss.

With clear guides and specific examples, this book makes methodology accessible to those working within L2 interaction and task research.

This edited volume brings together diverse perspectives on Australian literacy education for Indigenous peoples, highlighting numerous educational approaches, ideologies and aspirations.

English Language Arts offers both undergraduates and starting-graduate students in education an introduction to the connections that exist between language arts and a critical orientation to education.