Literacy

This volume offers concrete answers to the question of how we can use imagery to enrich the teaching of reading and writing. The chapters are organ...

Negotiating Critical Literacies in Classrooms brings together accounts of educators who have sought to make a difference in the lives of their stud...

This text is concerned with contemporary attitudes and approaches to the teaching of literacy, children's literature and other non-book texts and m...

There can be few areas of education which have been more controversial than the teaching of literacy. In an increasingly information-dense society,...

Designed to stimulate debate and critical thinking and to draw readers' attention to the ideological nature of literacy education across a broad ra...

Audiovisual Translation: Dubbing is an introductory textbook that provides a solid overview of the world of dubbing and is fundamentally interactiv...

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

Sociocultural Contexts of Language and Literacy, Second Edition engages prospective and in-service teachers in learning about linguistically and cu...

Prior to the twentieth century, Arab society in Palestine was predominantly illiterate, with most social and political activities conducted throug...

This volume offers an updated analysis of the methodology of reading and reading research since 1995, when the landmark book Verbal Protocols of Re...

The contribution of this book is to synthesize important common themes and highlight the unique features, findings, and lessons learned from three ...

An important contribution to the multi-disciplinary study of literacy, narrative and culture, this work argues that literacy is perhaps best descri...

Academics Writing recounts how academic writing is changing in the contemporary university, transforming what it means to be an academic and how, a...

Key Words: Reclaiming Children’s Precious Vocabulary is about early and emergent literacy— it promotes the concept that each child possesses a key ...

Key Words: Reclaiming Children’s Precious Vocabulary is about early and emergent literacy— it promotes the concept that each child possesses a key ...

Focusing primarily on reading and writing, this book presents summaries of state-of-the-art theory and research dealing with academic competence in...

The digital revolution has greatly influenced communication, meaning a current, analytical examination of changing literacy skills is needed. Becom...

Drawing on autoethnographic research on literacy autobiographies from a Chinese EFL writing context, this book provides unique insights into litera...

This book employs a critical discourse ethnographic approach to map the production of social meaning in digital media in education, drawing on insi...

This open access book, originally published in Portuguese in 1988 and now available in English for the first time, describes the Brazilian educator...

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

In order for students to reap the benefits of graphic novels, teachers need to first incorporate them into their classrooms. Graphic novels are not...

The digital revolution has greatly influenced communication, meaning a current, analytical examination of changing literacy skills is needed. Becom...