Literacy

The professional learning framework this book presents is designed to support teachers’ understandings of how language functions in their academic ...

People have been reading on computer screens for several decades now, predating popularization of personal computers and widespread use of the inte...

This textbook brings together research on literacy and multilingualism from a variety of settings: the learning of English in migrant destinations,...

Literacy is at the heart of all social concerns. Not only in childhood, in education, in Britain, but everywhere in the modern world of signs, prin...

This title offers an analysis of student literacy in an academic setting in South Africa, and how this has changed due to political, economic and s...

Learn how to sponsor a successful, student-led book club for grades K through 12 that is fun, easy-to-implement, and encourages reading. Book Club...

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

An increasingly popular approach to second and foreign language education, this book focuses on incidental learning: how students learn words from ...

This book provides some challangin questions which are examined in the light of authentic classroom experience. For any learner, literacy is of cru...

This book addresses a significant gap in the research literature on transitions across the school years: the continuities and discontinuities in sc...

This open access book argues that what makes writing academic emerges from socio-academic and historical practices rather than conventionalised sty...

An examination of literacy in relation to a wide range of new technology and media, especially talking books, email, video dating, interactive mult...

How does children's writing develop in the transition from primary to secondary school?Young Writers at Transition tracks a group of pupils from th...

What is a ‘contemporary’ understanding of literacy practices? How can ‘literacy’ be explained and situated? This book addresses literacy practices ...

In these studies Michael Macdonald examines the extraordinary flowering of literacy in both the settled and nomadic populations of western Arabia i...

The links between literacy and development have been the focus of research conducted by both economists and anthropologists. Yet researchers from t...

Containing invaluable insights from the original director of the National Literary Strategy (NLS) and its director of training, this book provides ...

The links between literacy and development have been the focus of research conducted by both economists and anthropologists. Yet researchers from t...

Containing invaluable insights from the original director of the National Literary Strategy (NLS) and its director of training, this book provides ...

Scientific Discourse examines the nature of scientific inquiry in the primary school classroom to show how this interacts with early literacy. Thro...

This book is a case study carefully detailing the French/English bilingual and biliterate development of three children in one family beginning wit...

Featuring an expanded introduction, this award-winning bestseller has been updated to link curriculum to the Common Core State Standards. This pop...

This book presents a validated observation instrument to support and further develop the pedagogic expertise of teachers of English Learners in US ...

This book investigates multilingual literacy practices, explores the technology applied in different educational frameworks, the centrality of mult...

This book aims to enhance and challenge our understanding of language and literacy as social practice against the background of heightened globalis...

While literacy has always been central to language planning work, there are fewer studies which focus primarily on literacy as a language planning ...

This book questions assumptions about the nature of language and how language is conceptualized. Looking at diverse contexts from sign languages in...

Winner of the 2017 Edward Fry Book Award from the Literacy Research Association. Literacy Theories for the Digital Age insightfully brings togethe...

In this volume a range of authors from different international contexts argue that the notion of communicative competence in English, hitherto larg...

This volume, as a sequel to Fossilization in Adult Second Language Acquisition by Han (2004), brings together a collection of most recent theoretic...

Talk, Text and Technology is an ethnographic exploration of language, learning and literacy in remote Indigenous Australia. This unique work traces...

The Meaning Makers is about children’s language and literacy development at home and at school. Based on the Bristol Study, “Language at Home and a...

This practical book, written by experienced practitioners, will help teachers of pupils with Special Educational Needs assess, record and improve t...