Literacy

Mirroring worldwide debates on social class, literacy rates, and social change, this study explores the intersection between reading and social class in Singapore, one of the top scorers on the Programme for International Assessment (PISA) tests, and questions the rhetoric of social change that does not take into account local spaces and practices.

Zapata demonstrates how to reinvigorate aesthetic and critical response in early childhood and elementary classrooms through literature explorations of diverse picturebook collections.

This book is based on an in-depth ethnographic study of the National Adult Literacy Programme (NALP) in Malawi.

Originally published in 1990.

This highly practical guide offers a systematic approach to instruction in the three main writing genres--narrative, persuasive, and informative--that students in grades 35 are expected to master.

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.

Before children are readers and writers, they are speakers and listeners.

Laliberte looks at a relatively unexplored aspect of modern Taiwan: the influence of religion on politics.

What makes mathematics so confusing to students?

This book discusses learning and teaching with modern technology in the new knowledge society.

Cross-Talk in Comp Theory is a collection of pivotal texts that mark the rebirth of a field, composition studies, beginning with the rise of the process movement.

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

World War I in German Southwest Africa is the backdrop for a spellbinding story about forbidden love, genocide and human endurance.

We know that literacy is the key to learning in school, yet millions of middle and high school students lack the literacy skills they need to succeed.

This volume grew out of the Seventeenth Annual University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Linguistics Symposium, which was held in Milwaukee on April 8-10, 1988.

This book explores the notion of software literacy, a key part of digital literacy which all contemporary students and citizens need to understand.

Inscrit dans un cadre théorique multidisciplinaire où est postulée une cohabitation du socioconstructivisme et de l’émergentisme, ce travail s’attache à comprendre les dynamiques de l’agir professionnel des enseignants de langues étrangères à l’aide d’un dispositif de suivi multimodal et longitudinal.

With contributions from leading scholars, this compelling volume offers fresh insights into literacy teaching and learningand the changing nature of literacy itselfin today's K12 classrooms.

The digital revolution has greatly influenced communication, meaning a current, analytical examination of changing literacy skills is needed.

This book examines the materiality of writing.

Build relationships between students and their community, while encouraging the development of important life skills.

Already Readers and Writers: Honoring Students' Rights to Read and Write in the Middle Grade Classroom is meant to help all middle school educators encourage their students to build literate lives both within the classroom and well beyond it.

Walt Whitman, célebre poeta estadounidense y uno de los más influyentes en la poesía universal, también cultivó el periodismo político y social.

With the recent explosion of activity and discussion surrounding comics, it seems timely to examine how we might think about the multiple ways in which comics are read and consumed.

The first woman elected superintendent of schools in Rowan County, Kentucky, Cora Wilson Stewart (1875--1958) realized that a major key to overcoming the illiteracy that plagued her community was to educate adult illiterates.

This book delves into extensive research regarding the identification and characterization of academic literacies constructs, encompassing academic literacy, quantitative literacy, mathematics comprehension, and reasoning skills, with a specific focus on their relevance within South African educational contexts.

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.

Moving beyond current theories on literacy practices, this edited collection sheds new light on the complexities inherent to the social, cultural, and ideological contexts in which literacy practices are realized.

Providing practical guidance and resources, this book helps teachers harness the power of children's literature for developing ELLs' literacy skills and language proficiency.

Computers, now the writer's tool of choice, are still blamed by skeptics for a variety of ills, from speeding writing up to the point of recklessness, to complicating or trivializing the writing process, to destroying the English language itself.

This book encourages readers to think about reading not only as an encounter with written language, but as a lifelong habit of engagement with ideas.

This timely book tackles underlying issues that see disproportionate numbers of African American males with dyslexia undiagnosed, untreated, and falling behind their peers in terms of literacy achievement.

This monograph offers a novel investigation of the Edwardian picture postcard as an innovative form of multimodal communication, revealing much about the creativity, concerns and lives of those who used postcards as an almost instantaneous form of communication.

Classicists have been slow to take advantage of the important advances in the way that literacy is viewed in other disciplines (including in particular cognitive psychology, socio-linguistics, and socio-anthropology).

Winner of the 2004 Book Award from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and the 2003 Roland H.

Second Language Writing in Elementary Classrooms focuses on L2 writing in elementary classrooms.

As major political and social changes continue to sweep through the countries of the world, and more and more nations move toward forms of social democracy, the importance of being able to read has taken on a new urgency.

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.

Adopting a 'social practice' approach to literacy research based on ethnographic methods, this book provides a strong critique of dominant understandings of the role of literacy in the lives of adults in Australia.

This book sheds light on the array of transformative literacies in the Global South, which English language teachers and educators seek to integrate within their pedagogical practices.

This book shows how behavior analysis can be applied to teaching reading and writing to primary school students and to special populations, such as children with intellectual and hearing disabilities and illiterate adults.

This book names and confounds the mono-mainstream assumption that invisibly frames much research, the ideologies that normalize monolingualism, monoculturalism, monoliteracy, mononationalism, and/or monomodal ways of knowing.

Focusing specifically on Interactional Ethnography (IE) as a distinct, discourse-based form of ethnography, this book introduces readers to the logic and practice behind IE and exemplifies the logic of ethnographic inquiry through a range of example-based chapters.

Kindergarten Skills is designed to help students master essential kindergarten skills.