Literacy

,A ground-breaking book.

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 provides two conceptual frameworks for further investigation of map literacy and fills in a gap in map literacy studies, addressing the distinction between reference maps and thematic maps and the varying uses of quantitative map literacy (QML) within and between the two.

This book provides scholars, educators, and legislators with a personal, classroom-level tour of daily life at a community college.

This book builds on conversations between the author educators and other experts in the field, including authors, illustrators and teachers, to explore the benefits of discussions around quality literature within a classroom context that exercises the imagination and generates new ideas and discoveries.

Undertaken by one of the most learned and visionary scholars in the field, this work has a comprehensive and culminating quality to it, tracking major lines of insight into writing as a human practice and articulating the author's intellectual progress as a theorist and researcher across a career.

Learning Trajectories, Violence and Empowerment amongst Adult Basic Skills Learners offers deep insights into the lives of marginalised communities and the link between learning, literacy and violence, not previously carried out in-depth in a small scale study.

This book offers educational experiences, including reflections and the resulting essays, from the Roberta Kevelson Seminar on Law and Semiotics held during 2008 - 2011 at Penn State University's Dickinson School of Law.

How do we save play in a standard-driven educational environment?

This workbook accompanies the three easier books in Dark Man Set One: The Dark Fire of Doom, Destiny in the Dark and The Dark Never Hides.

What does it mean to advocate - in translation, for translation, through translation?

Facilitate meaningful, multilevel lessons for students in grade 2 using Making Words: Lessons For Home or School.

An exploration of the fascinating and controversial history of girls' education in America from the colonial era to the computer age.

This book provides a synopsis of recently published empirical research into the acquisition of reading and writing in Arabic.

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This book employs a critical discourse ethnographic approach to map the production of social meaning in digital media in education, drawing on insights from Switzerland to unpack the disconnects that arise in thinking postdigitally and ways forward for rethinking socio-cultural approaches.

What does literacy mean in the 21st century?

Literacy and the Bilingual Learner explores the literacy development of bilingual learners in London (UK) schools and colleges through a series of vignettes and case studies of learners and their educational experiences.

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

This book brings together Patricia F.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

This book is a comprehensive introduction to translation studies between English and isiZulu.

How do we help college students become independent learners in their disciplines?

Picture books aren't just for little kids.

This text recognizes that there is no simple way to develop literacy.

The Educational Media and Technology Yearbook has become a standard reference in many libraries and professional collections.

This book has been replaced by Reading Instruction That Works, Fifth Edition, ISBN 978-1-4625-5184-2.

This insightful book reviews the current research on literacy programming, examines the latest standards for strengthening reading skills, and provides educators, families, and caregivers methods for building successful reading habits in and out of the classroom.

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This book brings together an international group of literacy studies scholars who have investigated mobile literacies in a variety of educational settings.

This book discusses current issues in literacy teacher education and illuminates the complexity of supporting self-efficacious educators to teach language and literacy in the twenty-first century classroom.

This collection brings together different perspectives on post-traumatic stress, considering its causes, its impact on different groups, and ways forward toward equipping speech-language clinicians, educators, and scholars to better understand and support the individuals and communities with which they work.

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 proliferation of book clubs, reading groups, "e;outline"e; volumes, and new forms of book reviewing in the first half of the twentieth century influenced the tastes and pastimes of millions of Americans.

The purpose of this volume is to present recent research in the field of the acquisition of functional literacy and its precursors.

This book brings together social semiotics, cultural studies, multiliteracies, and other approaches in order to theorize very different learning environments, giving visibility to the modal effect in a range of disciplines.

The intersection of sound processing, speech production, and literacy is a promising and growing area of study.

This volume presents a selection of papers presented at a series of three workshops organized by the Network “Written Language and Literacy” as launched by the European Science Foundation.

Recipient of the2025 Divergent Award for Excellence in Literacy in a Digital Age Research PublicationTeaching Literacy Online (TLO) is a practical guide for secondary and college teachers of English in digital and online environments.

This book examines how religion operates as an institution of governance and discipline in society.

With the growth of modern information technology, it is time to re-examine the concept and purpose of writing, and question the long cherished idea that the alphabet stands at the apex of a hierarchy towards which all 'proper' forms of writing must necessarily progress.

This book conveys the story of a society in the throes of restructuring itself and struggling to find a new identity.

Teaching and Learning Chinese in Higher Education deals with the current issues and challenges faced by teachers and learners of Chinese.

This Palgrave Pivot examines the history of literacy with illiterate and semi-literate people in mind, and questions the clear division between literacy and illiteracy which has often been assumed by social and economic historians.