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Landmarks in Literacy: The Selected Works of Frank Smith book cover

1st Edition

Landmarks in Literacy The Selected Works of Frank Smith

By Frank Smith Copyright 2015
166 Pages
by Routledge

166 Pages
by Routledge

166 Pages
by Routledge
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Frank Smith is internationally acclaimed as an essential contributor to research on the nature of reading and as an originator of the modern psycholinguistic approach to reading instruction. In his publications his aim has always been to support teachers, to encourage them to make teaching decisions based on knowledge and understanding, to analyze what their students are trying to do and why... Read more

Part I: From Essays Into Literacy

Part II: From Unspeakable Acts, Unnatural Practices

Part III: From Joining the Literacy Club

Part IV: From Reading Without Nonsense

Part V: From Between Hope and Havoc

Part VI: From Comprehension and Learning

Part VII: From Insult to Intelligence

Part VIII: From The Glass Wall

Biography

Frank Smith holds a Harvard Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology. He has written over 20 books on such topics as language, reading, writing, thinking and comprehension. He has held positions as professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Professor of Language in Education at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, and Professor and Department-head of Applied English Language Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. He was featured by the BBC in a program titled "How Do You Read?" and was a featured speaker in the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Ideas program on language. His most recent prize was awarded by the National Council of Teachers of English "for his transforming influence and lasting intellectual contribution to the English profession." He is the first Canadian to receive this prestigious award.

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