Parents can help their children learn to read. The effectiveness of parents' help, however, varies according to the type of parent-child activities. This book contains a summary of what scientific research says about how children learn to read and write.
Offers beginning classroom teachers a comprehensive introduction to the topic of educational research literacy - that is, the ability to read educational research articles in a systemic and critical way. This work gives students step-by-step guidance through the often baffling process of learning a new 'language' of research methods.
Introduces students to language in education policy, theory and practice in a multilingual world. Designed to be accessible to students from a wide range of disciplines, this book explores multilingualism at the individual and societal level and its impact on literacy learning around the world.
Links fields such as linguistics, anthropology, sociolinguistics and education to illustrate how the problem of literacy is embedded in a social and cultural context. Most of the essays are based on primary research and highlight important concerns about the political nature of literacy.
Joshua Fishman charts the rise of vernacular literacy in Europe, and the major social and economic changes that attended it. The book looks at how European colonizers viewed vernacular literacy efforts in their current and former colonies, and how technology affects vernacular literacy both now and in the future.
Joshua Fishman charts the rise of vernacular literacy in Europe, and the major social and economic changes that attended it. The book looks at how European colonizers viewed vernacular literacy efforts in their current and former colonies, and how technology affects vernacular literacy both now and in the future.
Writing development has been a key area of research in applied linguistics. Using a systemic functional grammar, this book outlines developmental changes in writing in three major areas of the school curriculum - English, history, and science - as children move from early childhood to late childhood and on to adolescence and adulthood.
While reading is a deeply personal activity, paradoxically, it is also fundamentally social and outward-looking. This book combines story with meditation to reveal this paradox and to illustrate why we need this special brand of 'quiet time' in our lives.
Presents a methodology for introducing an interactive system in classrooms that makes it possible to save considerably in production costs. This book examines the use of feedback as an intervention for the improvement of both teacher proficiency and student achievement.
This introduction to the expanding field of literacy studies has been fully revised for the second edition. It explores recent developments and new research that has contributed to our understanding of literacy practices, reflecting on the interdisciplinary growth of the study of reading and writing over the past decade.
Presents theoretical research embedded in classroom practice. Intended for practitioners as well as researchers, this title describes the pedagogies used in various educational contexts, from primary through secondary to academic study, TESOL and vocational education. It also presents methodologies for teaching reading and writing.
Presents theoretical research embedded in classroom practice. Intended for practitioners as well as researchers, this title describes the pedagogies used in various educational contexts, from primary through secondary to academic study, TESOL and vocational education. It also presents methodologies for teaching reading and writing.
Arguing for a reappraisal of the phenomenon of literacy, and hence for a profound shift in educational practice, this volume plays close attention to the plethora of objects which children constantly produce: drawings, cuttings-out, writings and collages.
Argues that the life and nature of language itself is breaking down under the adverse pressures of modern society, argues author Michael Rose. This work maps out the threats to literacy, investigates the nature of literacy and how it relates to child development, and examines what really works in preparing for and teaching literacy.
Examines the origins, evolution and impact of the National Literary Strategy (NLS), and provides a contribution to the teaching of literacy and the management of educational change. This book explains and appraises the rationale and design underpinning the NLS. It provides an example of the principles and practices of large-scale system change.
Illiteracy problems are worldwide, and growing. Taking "The Use of Vernacular Languages in Education", as their starting point, in this volume the authors assess the nature and significance of the events that have taken place since then, providing a global overview.
This, the first book ever written on academic presentations specifically from the perspective of non-native English speakers, is designed to help non-native English speakers to prepare and deliver effective presentations at international conferences.