English & Literacy/Language Arts

This book presents rigorous psycholinguistic research on foreign language learning, providing new insights into the cognitive process involved. For cognitive psychologists and psycholinguists, second language learning researchers and linguists alike...

The aim of the book is to demonstrate what the research shows of how children learn to read, especially of the role of phonology awareness in learning to read & how interventions may best work with those who have incomplete phonological awareness...

In this seminal volume leading language and literacy scholars clearly explicate the major social perspectives with which they are associated; offer their perspective, rationale, and engagement; and investigate implications for educational policies and practices...

In this seminal volume leading language and literacy scholars clearly explicate the major social perspectives with which they are associated; offer their perspective, rationale, and engagement; and investigate implications for educational policies and practices...

This inquiry into the ethical implications of education reform on reading practices asks what is lost, hidden, or marginalized in the name of progress? The author shows how genocide literature illuminates the ethics of reading and helps teachers and students rethink how literature should be taught a..

In this volume, renowned literacy and language education scholars who have shaped policy and practice aimed toward social justice and equity address current intellectual and practical issues in the teaching of literacy in classrooms and educational settings across diverse and international settings...

The most comprehensive and up-to-date source available for college reading and study strategy practitioners and administrators, the Third Edition reflects and responds to changing demographics as well as politics and policy concerns in the field since the publication of the previous edition...

The contribution of this landmark volume is its rethinking and reconceptualization of individual differences in reading. Proposing a more inclusive view, encompassing cognitive, non-cognitive, contextual, and methodological concerns, it serves as a summary of the current state of knowledge and a gui..

The contribution of this landmark volume is its rethinking and reconceptualization of individual differences in reading. Proposing a more inclusive view, encompassing cognitive, non-cognitive, contextual, and methodological concerns, it serves as a summary of the current state of knowledge and a gui..

A ‘one stop’ resource for prospective and practicing teachers, this text covers the wide range of reading assessments—from informal, classroom-based to high-stakes formal testing—educators must be able to use and understand to effectively assess and instruct their students...

Distinguished by its multidisciplinary approach, this landmark Handbook is the first to bring together leading scholarship on children’s and young adult literature from three intersecting disciplines: Education, English, and Library and Information Science...

Distinguished by its multidisciplinary approach, this landmark Handbook is the first to bring together leading scholarship on children’s and young adult literature from three intersecting disciplines: Education, English, and Library and Information Science...