Literacy and Language Education 2013

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

Adolescent Literacies and the Gendered Self

(Re)constructing Identities through Multimodal Literacy Practices

Edited by Barbara J. Guzzetti, Thomas Bean

Today’s youth live in the interface of the local and the global. Research is documenting how a world youth culture is developing, how global migration is impacting youth, how global capitalism is changing their economic and vocational futures, and how computer-mediated communication with the world...

Published November 20th 2012 by Routledge

Children's Ways with Science and Literacy

Integrated Multimodal Enactments in Urban Elementary Classrooms

Edited by Maria Varelas, Christine C. Pappas

Science is often a forgotten subject in early elementary grades as various mandates require teachers to focus on teaching young students to achieve specific reading and mathematical competencies. This book offers specific examples and empirical evidence of how integrated science-literacy curriculum...

Published November 18th 2012 by Routledge

Raising Literacy Achievement in High-Poverty Schools

An Evidence-Based Approach

By Eithne Kennedy

Series: Routledge Research in Education

This book shares lessons gleaned from a two-year intervention in a high-poverty school, which was highly successful in significantly narrowing the literacy achievement gap and in raising children’s motivation and engagement in literacy both inside and outside school. Kennedy argues that there is...

To Be Published July 31st 2013 by Routledge

Teaching Language Arts to English Language Learners

2nd Edition

By Anete Vásquez, Angela L. Hansen, Philip C. Smith

Series: Teaching English Language Learners across the Curriculum

This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Teaching Language Arts to English Language Learners provides readers with the comprehensive understanding of both the challenges that face ELLs and ways in which educators might address them in the language arts classroom. The authors offer proven...

Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge

L2 Writing in Secondary Classrooms

Student Experiences, Academic Issues, and Teacher Education

Edited by Luciana C. de Oliveira, Tony Silva

Series: ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series

Second language writers and the teaching of writing at the secondary level have received little attention compared with other skills such as reading. Addressing this gap, this volume uniquely looks at both adolescent L2 writing and the preparation of secondary teachers to work with this population...

Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge

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 March 21st 2013 by Routledge

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 March 21st 2013 by Routledge