Literacy

This book is an annual publication entering its 40th year.

A Theory of Literate Action makes a significant contribution to the field and enriches and deepens our perspectives on writing by drawing together such varied and wide-ranging approaches from social theory and the social sciences-from psychology, to phenomenology, to pragmatics-and demonstrating their relevance to writing studies.

Explores the process of word selection in second language use and the factors which determine the writer''s choice of words.

This book examines the materiality of writing.

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

The novice teacher and literacy coach need to form a team to share their expertise and continually evolve, to have opportunity for guided reflection and self-assessment of practice.

This book documents the impact of Stephen Harris's works in Aboriginal education, Aboriginal learning styles, domains of language use and bilingual-bicultural education.

This book explores the role that librarians play within schools as literacy leaders.

This book explores the role that librarians play within schools as literacy leaders.

This book explores Guided Inquiry Design(R), a simple, practical model that addresses all areas of inquiry-based learning and sets the foundation for elementary-age students to learn more deeply.

Class Politics The Movement for the Students' Right to Their Own Language (2e) is a response to histories of Composition Studies that focused on scholarly articles and university programs as the generative source for the field.

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

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.

The Yuanpei program is an institution wide curriculum innovation, modeling on the core curriculum in Harvard which is committed to carrying out general education.

Drawing on a multidisciplinary approach integrating insights from conversation analysis, narrative analysis, and narratology, this book theorizes teaching around narrative prose in each level of education, with a focus on a new framework of Pedagogic Literary Narration which emphasizes the practice of shared novel reading and the importance of the role of the teacher in mediating this practice.

This book offers an interdisciplinary approach to the teaching of academic writing and information literacy in a new digital dimension, drawing on recent trends towards project-based writing, digital writing and multimodal writing in Education, and synthesising theory with practice to provide a handy toolkit for teachers and researchers.

This is a teacher's resource book tailor-made for EFL teachers who want to bring Shakespeare into their classes.

Now in its third edition, Teaching and Researching Reading charts the field of reading (first and second language) systematically and coherently for the benefit of language teaching practitioners, students, and researchers.

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This edited volume is a systematic collection of research initiatives in the qualitative research paradigm.

This book is an exposition of a curriculum innovation within the complex yet fertile ground of school-based education in Singapore.

This book explores the language and literacy practices which sustain transnational migration across generations and across traditional boundaries such as school and home.

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.

Social Literacies develops new and critical approaches to the understanding of literacy in an international perspective.

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

Constructions of Illiteracy in Twentieth-Century Ireland: Contesting the Narrative of Full Literacy offers new insights into literacy and illiteracy in the context of twentieth-century Ireland.

This book presents a participatory action research study exploring the social identity and academic literacies of bilingual preservice teachers.

Beyond Standardized Truth, included in the Principles in Practice imprint, is the result of the authors own efforts to bridge the gap between valuing reading and being able to respond with appropriate instruction or evaluate growth in reading.

In considering the ways in which current theories of language in use and communicative processes are applied to the analysis, interpretation and definition of literary texts, this book sets an agenda for the future of pragmatic literary stylistics and provides a foundation for future research and debate.

In the twentieth century, illiteracy and its elimination were political issues important enough to figure in the fall of governments (as in Brazil in 1964), the building of nations (in newly independent African countries in the 1970s), and the construction of a revolutionary order (Nicaragua in 1980).

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.

This book explains how and why information literacy can help to foster critical thinking and discerning attitudes, enabling citizens to play an informed role in society and its democratic processes.

This book examines the progress of literacy in ancient Greece from its origins in the eighth century to the fourth century B.

Bridging Discourses in the ESL Classroom examines the interactions between learners and teachers in the language classroom.

This book presents an up-to-date account of current English-language English teaching and General Studies practices in the UAE.

The Second Handbook of English Language Teaching provides a comprehensive examination of policy, practice, research and theory related to English language teaching in international contexts.

This book presents an emerging rehabilitation program for improving the reading abilities of individuals with low vision who undergo therapy for visual impairment.

This book presents a participatory action research study exploring the social identity and academic literacies of bilingual preservice teachers.

This volume links theoretical and instructional approaches on how reading is motivated and assessed, and examines the interrelationship between reading motivation and achievement among boys and girls in culturally and geographically different settings.

Die Autorinnen des vorliegenden Buches haben sich zum Ziel gesetzt, Lehrpersonen dabei zu unterstützen, die Entwicklung der schriftsprachlichen und kommunikativen Kompetenzen ihrer Lerner gezielt zu fördern.

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

This book provides a critical commentary on key issues around learning in the digital age in both formal and informal educational settings.

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.

The almost universal reliance upon digitaltools for social, academic, and career development will only become morepronounced in the years to come.

Representations of language learning and literacy, also known as "e;literacy narratives"e; are a staple of literature.