English & Literacy/Language Arts

This guide for educators looks at major issues in language testing and provides knowledge, techniques, and strategies to design and implement assessments for use in classrooms that maximize fairness and validity for all students...

This guide for educators looks at major issues in language testing and provides knowledge, techniques, and strategies to design and implement assessments for use in classrooms that maximize fairness and validity for all students...

Uniquely bringing together discourse analysis, critical literacy, and teacher research, this book is both a guide for conducting critical discourse analysis and a look at how the authors and their teacher education students used the tools of discourse analysis to inquire into, critique, and design c..

Uniquely bringing together discourse analysis, critical literacy, and teacher research, this book is both a guide for conducting critical discourse analysis and a look at how the authors and their teacher education students used the tools of discourse analysis to inquire into, critique, and design c..

Designing Socially Just Learning Communities models an innovative form of professional development for educators and researchers who are seeking ways to transform educational practices. The teachers' practices and actions – in their classrooms and as members of the teacher research group – will spea..

Designing Socially Just Learning Communities models an innovative form of professional development for educators and researchers who are seeking ways to transform educational practices. The teachers' practices and actions – in their classrooms and as members of the teacher research group – will spea..

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Practical and accessible, while drawing on a range of relevant research and theory, this text for pre-service and in-service courses teaching writing is distinguished by its dual focus—on teachers as writers and the teaching of writing...

This volume unites spelling and word recognition -- two areas that have largely remained theoretically and empirically distinct. Despite considerable advances in the investigation of processes underlying word perception and the acknowledgement of the seminal importance of lexical access in the readi..

Dialects at School illuminates major language-related issues that educational practitioners confront, such as responding to dialect related features in students’ speech and writing, teaching Standard English, teaching students about dialects, and distinguishing dialect difference from language disor..

Drawing on Dialogical Self Theory, this book presents a new framework for social and cultural identity construction in the literacy classroom, offering possibilities for how teachers might adjust their pedagogy to better support the range of cultural stances present in all classrooms...