English & Literacy/Language Arts

Designed as a dictionary, but possessing an encyclopedic range, this is an invaluable A-Z guide to the debates surrounding language and literacy...

Providing a comprehensive introduction to and discussion of the value of linguistics in the secondary and post 16 curriculum, this book offers a theoretical background to the history and practice of the subject in the light of government initiatives and policies, and draws on research in linguistics..

Frank Smith is internationally acclaimed for his research on the nature of reading and as an originator of the modern psycholinguistic approach to reading instruction. This selection of 16 of his key writings brings together in one volume the major topics addressed in his work...

Frank Smith is internationally acclaimed for his research on the nature of reading and as an originator of the modern psycholinguistic approach to reading instruction. This selection of 16 of his key writings brings together in one volume the major topics addressed in his work...

This volume explores the reading development of native speakers of sign language, as well as their early pre-literacy language development. For deafness and sign language scholars, as well as linguists and reading specialists...

This volume explores the reading development of native speakers of sign language, as well as their early pre-literacy language development. For deafness and sign language scholars, as well as linguists and reading specialists...

This volume investigates the policy and practice of medium of instruction at different levels of education in ten polities in Asia and provides an informed understanding of its context, process, actors, goals and outcomes from a language policy and planning perspective._x000D_ This book was original..

Sonia Nieto speaks directly to current and future teachers in this thoughtful integration of a selection of her key writings with creative pedagogical features, offering information, insights, and motivation to teach culturally, racially, and linguistically diverse students...

Juan C. Guerra presents a conceptual framework—writing across difference—that acknowledges the linguistic, cultural, and semiotic resources students use in their communities of belonging, encourages them to call on these in the course of learning what they are being taught in the writing classroom, ..

Juan C. Guerra presents a conceptual framework—writing across difference—that acknowledges the linguistic, cultural, and semiotic resources students use in their communities of belonging, encourages them to call on these in the course of learning what they are being taught in the writing classroom, ..

This volume brings together in a new way the traditions of language, ethnography, and education in particular — integrating New Literacy Studies and Bourdieusian sociology with ethnographic approaches to the study of classroom practice...

With a focus on what mathematics and science educators need to know about academic language used in the STEM disciplines, this book critically synthesizes the current knowledge base on language challenges inherent to learning mathematics and science, with particular attention to the unique issues fo..