English & Literacy/Language Arts

Over the last two decades, the study of languages and writing systems and their relationship to literacy acquisition has begun to spread beyond studies based mostly on English language learners. As the worldwide demand for literacy continues to grow, res..

This book refutes the common Western belief that non-alphabetic writing systems (Chinese, Japanese. Korean) are hard to learn or to use, and offers practical theory-based methodology for the teaching of literacy in these languages to first and second language learners...

This book refutes the common Western belief that non-alphabetic writing systems (Chinese, Japanese. Korean) are hard to learn or to use, and offers practical theory-based methodology for the teaching of literacy in these languages to first and second language learners...

In this new edition Shannon provides an update of the liberal, conservative, and neoliberal ideological struggles to name and respond to poverty through the design, content, and pedagogy of reading education, and presents radical democratic interpretations...

In this new edition, Rona F. Flippo revisits her 2001 Expert Study, in which she set out to find common ground among experts in field of reading research, taking a fresh look at it and its implications in light of current thinking and research...

In this new edition, Rona F. Flippo revisits her 2001 Expert Study, in which she set out to find common ground among experts in field of reading research, taking a fresh look at it and its implications in light of current thinking and research...

Reading Students’ Lives documents literacy practices across time as children move through school, with a focus on issues of schooling, identity construction, and how students and their parents make sense of students’ lives across time. Breaking new ground both theoretically and methodologically, thi..

Reading Students’ Lives documents literacy practices across time as children move through school, with a focus on issues of schooling, identity construction, and how students and their parents make sense of students’ lives across time. Breaking new ground both theoretically and methodologically, thi..

Provides a critical review of observational research and findings on gender literacies. It presents five genres of studies - gender and reading, writing, discussion, electronic or posttypographic text and literacy autobiography - and uses the perspective of feminist sociology to analyse them...

In this groundbreaking book, esteemed researchers Ken Goodman, Peter Fries, and Steven Strauss explain not only what reading really is but also why common sense makes it seem to be something quite different from that reality...

This unique resource showcases innovative work in teacher education that fosters teachers’ capacities as reflective practitioners and public intellectuals; extends traditional boundaries of methods courses on teaching the English language arts, literacy, children’s and young adult literature; and em..

At a time when literacy has become more of a political issue than a research or pedagogical one, this volume refocuses attention on work with young children that places them at the center of their literacy worlds. It explores young children’s literacies as inclusive, redefined, and broadened encompa..