Literacy Books

The contributors present their in-depth studies of everyday uses and meanings of literacy and of the literacy programmes that have been developed to enhance them.

Após a Primeira Guerra Mundial, vários autores católicos como François Mauriac, Paul Claudel, Charles Péguy e Georges Bernanos procuraram expressar a sua sensibilidade cristã nas suas obras. Os temas que caracterizam as obras dos pioneiros cristãos deste...

Investigación literaria de orden socio crítico, la cual tiene como propósito abordar el fenómeno de la narco-narrativa en el mercado literario de Colombia. Para esto, en un primer momento es abordada la narco cultura y narco estética como productos...

The book titled 'Descriptive English' is a modest attempt on the part of writers to provide a supporting system for English language teachers working in low resource conditions across the globe. Description requires creative thinking, originality,...

This book points out how Wole Soyinka portrays the African world in its post-colonial condition in some of his plays. Soyinka sees that the spirit of "oppositionality", which is essential for national liberation, requires the revolutionary acts against...

The study of code switching is potentially the most creative aspect of bilingual speech. The topic has certainly aroused the curiosity of many researchers, and a host of different features of it have been studied. Sociolinguists have looked into speech...

Analisamos a representação do trágico em "La vida es sueño", de Pedro Calderón de la Barca, tendo como base os elementos da arte dramática no contexto histórico do Século de Ouro Espanhol. Assim, fizemos uma análise sistemática da teoria do drama, das...

2013 Reprint of 1947 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Inhis book "Teaching the World to Read" you'll find explained Laubach's famed literacy program. Frank Laubach was sponsored to go...

This book addresses the ways in which literacy skills, including both reading and writing instruction, are introduced, reinforced, reviewed, and refined in a sports or physical education setting.

This engaging, inviting textbook from a renowned expert in writing education provides all the knowledge, pedagogical strategies, and tools needed to enable any teacher to be an effective teacher of writing.

Teacher educators today need knowledge and practical ideas about how to prepare all pre-service and in-service teachers (not just bilingual or ESL specialists) to teach the growing number of students in K-12 classrooms in the United States who speak...

Rabota vypolnena v rusle antropotsentricheskoy paradigmy v sovremennoy lingvistike, aktivno razvivayushcheysya v poslednie desyatiletiya. V monografii predprinyato mnogoaspektnoe izuchenie emotsional'nykh kontseptov v trekh slavyanskikh lingvokul'turakh...

This study sought to establish how teachers of English use drama techniques to teach. It aimed to establish how effective language teaching could be achieved through use of drama techniques that enhance authentic language use through learners'active...

Within the past decade, the role of film and media in K-12 classrooms has grown from entertainment-based activities to an active literacy-centered textual practice. A multitude of approaches in instruction are required for literacy education, including a...

Income disparity for students in both K-12 and higher education settings has become increasingly apparent since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the wake of these changes, impoverished students face a variety of challenges both internal and...

Finding Your Voice with Dyslexia and other SpLDs is an essential guide to living with dyslexia and other specific learning difficulties (SpLDs). The book provides readers with a practical guide to expressing and developing ideas and feelings...

Providing an original framework for the study of makerspaces in a literacy context, this book bridges the scholarship of literacy studies and STEM and offers a window into the practices that makers learn and interact with. Tucker-Raymond and Gravel...

In this cutting-edge volume, scholars from around the world connect affect theory to the field of literacy studies and unpack the role and influence of this emerging area of scholarship on literacy education. Offering an introduction to affect theory and...

Designed for pre-service teachers and teachers new to the field of ELT,　What English Teachers Need to Know Volumes I,　II, and III　are companion textbooks organized around the key question:　What do teachers need to know and be able to do in order for...

Ken and Yetta Goodman are renowned and revered worldwide for their pioneering, influential work in the field of reading/literacy education. In this volume major literacy scholars from around the world pay tribute to their work and offer glimpses of what...

Popular novelist, female aesthete, Victorian radical and proto-modernist, Lucas Malet (Mary St. Leger　 Harrison, 1852-1931) was one of the most successful writers of her day, yet few of her remarkable novels remain in print. Malet was a daughter of the...

Czym jest kompetencja komunikacyjna? Jaki jest jego charakter i wpływ na jakość kształcenia? Czy można ją poprawić w trakcie nauczania języków obcych, a także zmierzyć i ocenić? Jak stworzyć technologię testów językowych służącą do identyfikacji...

The idea of storytelling goes beyond the borders of language, culture, or traditional education, and has historically been a tie that bonds families, communities, and nations. Digital storytelling offers opportunities for authentic academic and...

Socioscientific issues require individuals to use moral and ethical considerations to help in their evaluation of evidence and decision making, entailing controversial scientific phenomena. Such issues include genetic engineering and biotechnology...

While the written word is an important means of communication among people, the technological revolution has increased the demands on mental processes involved in the processing of written information, which endangers the quality of life of people who...

Electracy and Transmedia StudiesSeries Editors: Jan Rune Holmevik and Cynthia HaynesA motto guiding Gregory L. Ulmer's career is from the poet Basho: not to follow in the footsteps of the masters, but to seek what they sought. The responsibility of...

Based on the groundbreaking research of VIEWS2-the first systematic study of storytimes done to date-this book recommends simple interactive ways to emphasize early literacy techniques and encourage children to use and practice their pre-reading skills...

Reading Work: Literacies in the New Workplace explores changing understandings of literacy and its place in contemporary workplace settings. It points to new questions and dilemmas to consider in planning and teaching workplace education. By taking a...

This carefully crafted collection provides a snapshot of the evolution of David Nunan's　theoretical and empirical contributions to the field of second language education over the last 40 years. The volume focuses on the development of his work on second...

With reports from several studies showing the benefits of teaching young children about morphemes, this book is essential reading for anyone concerned with helping children to read and write. By breaking words down into chunks of meaning...

Student Writing presents an accessible and thought-provoking study of academic writing practices. Informed by 'composition' research from the US and 'academic literacies studies' from the UK, the book challenges current official discourse on writing as a...

Changing News Use pulls from empirical research to introduce and describe how changing news user patterns and journalism practices have been mutually disruptive, exploring what journalists and the news media can learn from these changes.

An exploration of Metamodernism, the philosophical framework based on the post-2000 historical and cultural moment, helps in understanding digital citizenship beyond postmodernism and into the future. Research on best practices for learning in digital...

The fast pace of technology in this day and age has made it difficult for individuals to stay informed without becoming lost in the folds of an information overload. Methods used to narrow down information are becoming just as important as providing the...

In an earlier era, the communication field was dominated by the study of mediated and unmediated message effects during which considerable research focused on the attitudinal and action consequences of exposure to messages. A more catholic purview of the...

In this book, Rodríguez uses theories of critical literacy and culturally responsive teaching to argue that our schools, and our culture, need sustaining and inclusive young adult (YA) literature/s to meet the needs of culturally and linguistically...

Frank Smith is internationally acclaimed as an essential contributor to research on the nature of reading and as an originator of the modern psycholinguistic approach to reading instruction. In his publications his aim has always been to support...

Parents who are also educational researchers have access to a domain that is highly complex and not always available to other scholars.  In this book, parent-researchers provide theoretical and practical insights into children's learning in the home...

Digital Literary Studies presents a broad and varied picture of the promise and potential of methods and approaches that are crucially dependent upon the digital nature of the literary texts it studies and the texts and collections of texts with which...

In this book, Jessica Zacher Pandya examines the everyday videomaking practices of students in a dual language, under-resourced school in order to explore the ways children interrogate their worlds, the kinds of identities they craft, and the language...

Concise and engaging, this text provides pre-service and practicing English language teachers with the knowledge they need to successfully teach the spelling of English. Offering context and explanation for the English spelling system as well as uniquely...

This book provides ways of thinking for preservice and new teachers to transition from the theory behind curricular design to engaged teaching and learning in the classroom. It offers a comprehensive framework for the creation and implementation of one's...

Published by Routledge for the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education This volume addresses the pressing reality in teacher education that all teachers need to be prepared to work effectively with linguistically and...

This is an edited book based on papers presented at a 2003 invitee-only conference under the sponsorship of the Merrill Advanced Studies Center of the University of Kansas. The participants were prominent scholars in the areas of language and reading,...

This book provides research-based insights that deepen and broaden current understandings of the nature of reading. Informed by psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic views of reading-as-meaning-construction, the studies build on principles of scientific...