This collection brings together situated research studies of literacy across a range of specific contexts, covering everyday, educational, and workplace domains.
Youth are called upon to improvise and construct themselves symbolically in a continuously connected world, yet new teachers and students are still ex..
This book represents the next wave of theorising in literacy studies, in which theories of mobility, networking and glocalisation have emerged to acco..
Classrooms are increasingly multicultural in their social composition, and students are increasingly connected, through digital media, to local and gl..
Frank Smith is internationally acclaimed for his research on the nature of reading and as an originator of the modern psycholinguistic approach to rea..
Reading and Teaching raises questions and provides a context for preservice and practicing teachers to understand and to reflect on the complex issues..
Kamishibai (paper-theater), a Japanese picture-storytelling medium, is gaining global interest as we move from a text-based culture to one that emphas..
For the many categories of EFL teachers throughout the world, this book examines the main principles which concern them. By drawing upon their experie..
The contributors present their in-depth studies of everyday uses and meanings of literacy and of the literacy programmes that have been developed to e..
Bethan Marshall traces the competing traditions of English teaching and considers their relevance to the current debate through an analysis of English..
Designed specially for postgraduate TESOL and Applied Linguistics students, this Reader provides both theoretical perspectives and practical tools for..
This work represents the best current thinking and research about literacy - the outcome of a series of high-profile seminars on raising standards in ..
This book addresses the literacy problems of African American students providing educators with an African American centred theory of rhetoric and com..