Literacy

Humane, humorous and deeply felt, this is a unique book about reading.The Rights of the Reader, which has sold over a million copies in France, gre...

Within the framework of New Literacy Studies, Dirk Remley presents a historical study of how technical communication practices at a World War II ar...

Using a dialogue format, contributors to this collection of essays outline key issues in the cultural history of medieval women. Many of the essays...

An alarmingly high number of American students continue to lack proficiency in reading, math, and science. The various attempts to address this pro...

Nation of Bookworms takes an in-depth look at the reading culture of the Czech Republic--the country with the highest number of libraries per capit...

The future needs Dyslexic Thinking!British social entrepreneur, founder and CEO of charity Made By Dyslexia, Kate Griggs has been shifting the narr...

Why do literary theorists see reading as an act of dispassionate textual analysis and meaning production, when historical evidence shows that reade...

Why do literary theorists see reading as an act of dispassionate textual analysis and meaning production, when historical evidence shows that reade...

This book is a comprehensive introduction to translation studies between English and isiZulu. It incorporates crucial concepts for understanding th...

These new Set 7A (Grey) Storybooks are designed to give children extra practice, and to develop their fluency and vocabulary further before moving ...

Mapping Applied Linguistics: A Guide for Students and Practitioners, Third Edition, provides a newly updated, wide-ranging introduction to the full...

Following Congress’s approval of the creation of Shenandoah National Park in 1926, displaced Virginia mountain families wrote to U.S. government of...

Mapping Applied Linguistics: A Guide for Students and Practitioners, Third Edition, provides a newly updated, wide-ranging introduction to the full...

There Is No Making It Out is an archival, revisionist rhetorical historiography and pedagogically informed conversation at the intersections of lit...

There Is No Making It Out is an archival, revisionist rhetorical historiography and pedagogically informed conversation at the intersections of lit...

Southern Association for Women Historians Julia Cherry Spruill Prize. Finalist, Hooks National Book AwardHow Black women used lessons in literacy t...

This book presents, discusses and explores questions around teachers’ (mainstream teachers, student teachers, EAL teachers) conceptions of language...

This volume brings together an international group of leading scholars in the area of literacy education. They discuss and apply a range of contemp...