Literacy

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.

Duecks anregende und provozierende Analyse des Menschen, seiner Wege und Ziele und der Bedingungen, unter denen er sein Leben lebt, hat große Resonanz ausgelöst.

From the nation's beginnings, efforts have been made to silence U.

This book brings together authors actively involved in shaping the field of literacy studies, presenting a robust approach to the theoretical and empirical work which is currently pushing the boundaries of literacy research and also pointing to future directions for literacy research.

Synthesizing a range of studies on morphological processing from the past 30 years, this edited collection presents the current state of knowledge on morphological processing and defines classroom practices to help students conceptualise the role of morphology in reading, spelling, and vocabulary development.

This edited collection provides an in-depth exploration of different aspects of contemporary early childhood literacy research and the implications for educational practice.

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.

Words equal credibility.

This book focuses on information literacy in higher education from Asian countries.

Hundreds of thousands of teachers have used this highly practical guide to help K12 students enlarge their vocabulary and get involved in noticing, understanding, and using new words.

Offering fresh alternatives to common instructional practices that fail to get results, this accessible, highly practical guide highlights ways to motivate middle school students while enhancing content-area learning.

This collection highlights the diverse ways comics and graphic novels are used in English and literature classrooms, whether to develop critical thinking or writing skills, paired with a more traditional text, or as literature in their own right.

This book breaks through formalistic traditions to propose a new generic structure analytical framework for academic writing.

From an ethnological standpoint, this study contends that the construction and implementation of a gender-based literacy program that empowers adult education learners in rural or semi-rural (hybrid) areas in Algeria must consider the context of the Arabic-Islamic tradition.

This volume is the first published collection of papers on the impact of diglossia and dialectal variations on language and literacy acquisition, impairment, and education.

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.

The Legacy of James Moffett is a valuable resource designed for classroom teachers, graduate students, scholars, and curriculum specialists in English, English education, and writing studies.

Nei risultati di questa ricerca, condotta con maestria ed equilibrio, emerge un aspetto di grande interesse, perché eccede la linguistica e getta una luce sulle ragioni della fortuna dell’italiano nel mondo: l’Italian sounding è spesso svincolato dalla semantica delle unità linguistiche.

This volume offers a comprehensive account of language development from a Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL) perspective, integrating theory and data from a wide range of research studies.

Diese biographieanalytische Studie thematisiert die Auseinandersetzung mit der Bedeutung von Religiosität und religiösen Lern- und Bildungsprozessen von Frauen für Identitätsbildungsprozesse.

Uno de los objetivos de este trabajo es profundizar en la observación de la dinámica del canon dentro de las historias de la literatura colombiana escritas entre 1867 y 1944.

A probing and prescient consideration of writing as an instrument of punishment Writing tends to be characterized as a positive aspect of literacy that helps us to express our thoughts, to foster interpersonal communication, and to archive ideas.

This volume provides an overview of current issues in English as an International Language (EIL) education and critical intercultural literacy pedagogy.

Language, Literacy, and Learning in STEM Education brings together a range of applied linguistic researchers and projects that address the interface among language studies, science, engineering, and education.

This book shows that reading-writing is a two-way street that is burgeoning with research activity.

This book provides everything STEM teachers need to use graphic novels in order to engage students, explain difficult concepts, and enrich learning.

This book reviews systematic training programs that are designed to enhance the language, reading, literacy and cognitive skills of individuals with Learning Disabilities in various disciplines.

Reading for pleasure urgently requires a higher profile to raise attainment and increase children's engagement as self-motivated and socially interactive readers.

Walking in Shakespeares Shoesproposes and explores a practical, historical, and culturally-relevant approach to teaching Shakespeare, situating the plays and sonnets in a tumultuous early modern world.

This book is a rich, yet highly accessible volume that details an exciting and much-needed inquiry into the notion of literacy: what it is, why it is, and how it might be framed most effectively for 21st century education.

This edited book presents the integration of Critical Media Literacy (CML) principles into teaching English as a Foreign Language (EFL).

A thirty year study tracking the changes in family life and language development in 300 working-class families from 1981 onwards.

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

Teaching Information Literacy through Short Stories examines information literacy themes through 18 short stories.

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.

An exciting novel that happens to be true.

This book provides a critical account of the development of questions, approaches, methods, and understandings of literacy within and across disciplines and interdisciplines.

Poetry as Research develops an approach that allows poetry writing to be used as a research method for exploring questions relating to second language learners and more broadly for studies within the humanities and social sciences.

Explores the pervasiveness of poetry''s impact on philosophy and, conversely, how philosophy has sometimes resisted or denied poetry''s influence.

This volume examines the unique characteristics of akshara orthography and how they may affect literacy development and problems along with the implications for assessment and instruction.

This book explores the lives of five Mexican immigrant-origin youths in the United States, documenting their language and literacy journeys over an eight-year period from adolescence to young adulthood.

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

This accessible guide brings together well-known authorities to examine what reading fluency is and how it can best be taught.

Bringing together multiple sources of data and combining existing theories across language teacher cognition, teacher education, second language motivation and psychology, this empirically-grounded analysis of teacher development in action offers new insights into the complex and dynamic nature of language teachers' conceptual change.

The narrowing of English language education curriculum in many contexts has negatively impacted classroom teaching and learning.