English & Literacy/Language Arts

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..

This book represents the next wave of theorising in literacy studies, in which theories of mobility, networking and glocalisation have emerged to account for the dynamic landscape of globally circulating communication resources. The mobility turn is likely to preoccupy researchers, educators and cul..

This book represents the next wave of theorising in literacy studies, in which theories of mobility, networking and glocalisation have emerged to account for the dynamic landscape of globally circulating communication resources. The mobility turn is likely to preoccupy researchers, educators and cul..

Learning and Literacy over Time brings together distinguished and well-known educationalists and literacy researchers who revisited their initial accounts of research conducted 10-20 years ago with people whom they encountered through ethnographic or classroom-based investigations. Carefully structu..

This book reports on a two-year long, qualitative literacy case study of the academic literacies of first and second-generation immigrant youth in an afterschool tutoring program in South Bronx, New York. Through transcripts of tutoring sessions, interview data, and youths’ written work, each chapte..

This is a guide for teachers, showing how to introduce and use academic journals effectively at elementary level. The journal is intended to be a place where students can record and respond to new ideas across the curriculum, which then act as a base for further learning...

Showing that being a critical reader of numerical information is an essential part of literacy today, this book offers strategies and examples teachers can use to help students become both critical composers and critical readers of texts...

Showing that being a critical reader of numerical information is an essential part of literacy today, this book offers strategies and examples teachers can use to help students become both critical composers and critical readers of texts...

In this book, parent-researchers provide theoretical and practical insights into children’s learning at home and in school. It showcases parent-research as a research paradigm...

In this book, parent-researchers provide theoretical and practical insights into children’s learning at home and in school. It showcases parent-research as a research paradigm...

The essays, research studies, and pedagogical examples in this book provide a window into the embodied dimensions of literacy within a multiplicity of education spaces and literacy events inside and outside of institutional contexts, and a toolbox for interpreting, building on, and inquiring into th..

The book is intended to help educators and researchers understand the complexities of adolescent gang members' lives, and rethink their assumptions about gang kids to see beyond stereotypes of a marginalized group in schools...