Literacy

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

This invaluable resource guides readers through the process of creating scholarly, publishable prose from the results of quantitative experiments and investigations.

This book draws on a longitudinal study which highlights the beneficial impact of film in the primary curriculum.

This book critically engages with theoretical shifts marked by the 'multilingual turn' in applied linguistics, and articulates the complexities associated with naming and engaging with the everyday language practices of bi/multilingual communities.

A useful guide to best practice including reviews of the latest and most helpful tests available.

Making sure that all students read well is a top priority for schools, and literacy coaches are playing an increasingly important role in the effort.

English Nouns explores the mechanisms by which English nominalizations come to have a variety of readings depending on their syntactic context.

Appalachia faces overwhelming challenges that plague many rural areas across the country, including poorly funded schools, stagnant economic development, corrupt political systems, poverty, and drug abuse.

This book provides comprehensive coverage of the Korean alphabet, Hangul, and includes a synthesis of research findings relating to reading in the non-Roman alphabet.

Genre studies and genre approaches to literacy instruction continue to develop in many regions and from a widening variety of approaches.

This book brings the vision of a student-centred classroom to life through clear illustrations of guiding principles, balanced with examples of real teachers in real classrooms with real children, many of whom are English learners.

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 Academic Vocabulary Practice for first grade offers teachers 128-pages of practical ways to help students master essential academic vocabulary.

Children's literature shapes what children learn about the world.

Literacy and Literacies is an engaging account of literacy and its relation to power.

The book introduces the reader into the world of mental perception of literary contents.

What teacher hasn't sometimes believed that the entire class understands a lesson, even though only a few students are nodding their heads and answering questions?

Greek Writing from Knossos to Homer examines the origin of the Greek alphabet.

This book focuses on what school leaders need to know and understand about leadership for learning, and for learning to read in particular.

This book asks researchers what uncertainty means for literacy research, and for how literacy plays through uncertain lives.

This book focuses on what school leaders need to know and understand about leadership for learning, and for learning to read in particular.

Undoing the Digital challenges common ways of understanding digital technology and its relationships to literacy and literacy education.

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

Ted Kesler, with a community of grade school teachers and students, demonstrates how students creative responses lead to deep comprehension of diverse texts and ultimately help them to develop their literate identities.

This book addresses critical questions facing public education at the twenty-first century.

This volume provides an original theoretical and practical discussion around language ontology, social theory, ethics, and pedagogy to enhance socially committed teaching and scholarship in Higher Education.

Immer schon war der "Wahnsinn" das Kennzeichen des wahren Dichters.

Adolescent Literacy in the Era of the Common Core provides school leaders, teachers, and others with strategies and best practices for advancing adolescent literacy in the classroom.

Reading Comprehension and Skills for first grade is designed to help students develop a strong foundation of reading basics so that they will become competent readers who can advance to more challenging texts.

This book critically explores why some Asian nations are on top of the world in students' achievement tests in reading and literacy, yet governments and industry in these nations are anxious about a crisis in education.

An acclaimed reference that fills a significant gap in the literature, this volume examines the linkages between spoken and written language development, both typical and atypical.

This book brings together in one place David Hitchcock's most significant published articles on reasoning and argument.

This book explores the gradual evolution of Adult literacy policy from the 1970s using philosophical, sociological and economic frames of reference from a range of perspectives to highlight how priorities have changed.

This collection offers an inclusive, multifaceted look at individual students' patterns of writing trajectories, as well as their development of an identity as a writer.

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

Machine learning is a novel discipline concerned with the analysis of large and multiple variables data.

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.

Innovations and Challenges in Applied Linguistics from the Global South provides an original appraisal of the latest innovations and challenges in applied linguistics from the perspective of the Global South.

This book discusses how to approach critical literacy in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) contexts.

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.

Pre-order Sarah Ockwell-Smith's essential guide to child psychology and development.

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.

This book draws on original research and a language based pedagogy approach to examine how secondary schools in the UK can devise and implement coherent language and literacy across curriculum policies and strategies, so that grammar and associated metalanguage becomes an integral part of their day to day curriculum practices.

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

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.

This edited book focuses on affordances and limitations of e-books for early language and literacy, features and design of e-books for early language and literacy, print versus e-books in early language and literacy development, and uses of and guidelines for how to use e-books in school and home literacy practices.

This book critically engages with theoretical shifts marked by the 'multilingual turn' in applied linguistics, and articulates the complexities associated with naming and engaging with the everyday language practices of bi/multilingual communities.

Reading Comprehension and Skills for third grade is designed to help students develop a strong foundation of reading basics so that they will become competent readers who can advance to more challenging texts.