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New and Published Books

  1. Teaching English Literature 16–19

    An essential guide

    By Carol Atherton, Andrew Green, Gary Snapper

    Series: National Association for the Teaching of English (NATE)

    Teaching English Literature 16 – 19 is an essential new resource that is suitable for use both as an introductory guide for those new to teaching literature and also as an aid to reflection and renewal for more experienced teachers. Using the central philosophy that students will learn best when...

    Published June 20th 2013 by Routledge

  2. Handbook of Orthography and Literacy

    Edited by R. Malatesha Joshi, P.G. Aaron

    Until about two decades ago, the study of writing systems and their relationship to literacy acquisition was sparse and generally modeled after studies of English language learners. This situation is now changing. As the worldwide demand for literacy continues to grow, researchers from different...

    Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge

  3. Fluency in Reading

    Synchronization of Processes

    By Zvia Breznitz

    This is the first book to examine in-depth the crucial role of the speed of information processing in the brain in determining reading fluency in both normal and dyslexic readers.Part I explains fluency in reading from both traditional and modern perspectives. Fluency has historically been viewed...

    Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge

  4. Designing Critical Literacy Education through Critical Discourse Analysis

    Pedagogical and Research Tools for Teacher-Researchers

    By Rebecca Rogers, Melissa Mosley Wetzel

    Uniquely bringing together discourse analysis, critical literacy, and teacher research, this book invites teacher educators, literacy researchers, and discourse analysts to consider how discourse analysis can be used to foster critical literacy education. It is both a guide for conducting critical...

    Published June 16th 2013 by Routledge

  5. Framing Languages and Literacies

    Socially Situated Views and Perspectives

    Edited by Margaret R. Hawkins

    In this seminal volume leading language and literacy scholars clearly articulate and explicate major social perspectives and approaches in the fields of language and literacy studies. Each approach draws on distinct bodies of literature and traditions and uses distinct identifiers, labels, and...

    Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge

  6. Ethical Issues in Literacy Research

    Edited by Carole S. Rhodes, Kenneth J. Weiss

    Literacy educators and researchers at all stages of their careers face ethical issues whenever they embark on research studies. In this book experienced literacy researchers identify and address multi-faceted, multi-dimensional ethical issues related to conducting studies in school, home, community...

    Published April 1st 2013 by Routledge

  7. Literacy as Translingual Practice

    Between Communities and Classrooms

    Edited by Suresh Canagarajah

    The term translingual highlights the reality that people always shuttle across languages, communicate in hybrid languages and, thus, enjoy multilingual competence. In the context of migration, transnational economic and cultural relations, digital communication, and globalism, increasing contact is...

    Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge

  8. Negotiating Critical Literacies with Teachers

    Theoretical Foundations and Pedagogical Resources for Pre-Service and In-Service Contexts

    By Vivian Maria Vasquez, Stacie L. Tate, Jerome C. Harste

    How can teacher educators engage pre-service and in-service teachers in learning about and framing their teaching from a critical literacy perspective? What does this mean? Why is it important? To address these questions, this book offers a theoretical framework and detailed examples, pedagogical...

    Published March 6th 2013 by Routledge

  9. Teaching English, Language and Literacy

    3rd Edition

    By Dominic Wyse, Russell Jones, Helen Bradford, Mary Anne Wolpert

    ‘This book is comprehensive, up-to-date, critical and authoritative. It is also, above all, well written. It will undoubtedly become standard reading for the next generation of teachers in training and practising teachers will also learn a great deal from dipping into its contents.' - David Wray,...

    Published January 9th 2013 by Routledge

  10. Working with Multimodality

    Rethinking Literacy in a Digital Age

    By Jennifer Rowsell

    In today’s digital world, we have multiple modes of meaning-making: sounds, images, hypertexts. Yet, within literacy education, even ‘new’ literacies, we know relatively little about how to work with and produce modally complex texts. In Working with Multimodality,...

    Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge