English & Literacy/Language Arts Books

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61. Debates in English Teaching

    Edited by Jon Davison, Caroline Daly, John Moss

    Series: Debates in Subject Teaching

    What are the key debates in English teaching today? Debates in English Teaching explores the major issues all English teachers encounter in their daily professional lives. It engages with established and contemporary debates, promotes and supports critical reflection and aims to stimulate both...

    Published December 14th 2010 by Routledge
62. Ethnography and Language Policy

    Edited by Teresa L. McCarty

    Illuminating, through ethnographic inquiry, how individual agents "make" language policy in everyday social practice, this volume advances the growing field of language planning and policy using a critical sociocultural approach. From this perspective, language policy is conceptualized not only as...

    Published December 12th 2010 by Routledge
63. Handbook of Research on Teaching the English Language Arts

    Co-Sponsored by the International Reading Association and the National Council of Teachers of English, 3rd Edition

    Edited by Diane Lapp, Douglas Fisher

    Now in its third edition, the Handbook of Research on Teaching the English Language Arts offers an integrated perspective on the teaching of the English language arts and a comprehensive overview of research in the field. Prominent scholars, researchers, and professional leaders: provide...

    Published December 1st 2010 by Routledge
64. Research on Second Language Teacher Education

    A Sociocultural Perspective on Professional Development

    Edited by Karen E. Johnson, Paula R. Golombek

    Series: ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series

    Embracing a sociocultural perspective on human cognition and employing an array of methodological tools for data collection and analysis, this volume documents the complexities of second language teachers’ professional development in diverse L2 teacher education programs around the world, including...

    Published November 23rd 2010 by Routledge
65. Improving Literacy at Work

    By Alison Wolf, Karen Evans

    Series: Improving Learning

    Modern societies demand high levels of literacy. The written word is pervasive; individuals with poor literacy skills are deeply disadvantaged; and governments are increasingly pre-occupied with the contribution that skills can make to economic growth. As a result, the basic skills of adult workers...

    Published November 7th 2010 by Routledge
66. Teaching Literature to Adolescents

    2nd Edition

    By Richard Beach, Deborah Appleman, Susan Hynds, Jeffrey Wilhelm

    Designed to introduce prospective English teachers to current methods of teaching literature in middle and high school classrooms, this popular textbook explores a variety of innovative approaches that incorporate reading, writing, drama, talk, and media production. Each chapter is organized around...

    Published November 7th 2010 by Routledge
67. Literacy, Power, and the Schooled Body

    Learning in Time and Space

    By Kerryn Dixon

    What effects do space and time have on classroom management, discipline, and regulation? How do teachers’ practices create schooled and literate students? To explore these questions, this book looks at early childhood classrooms, charting the shifts and continuities as four-year-old children...

    Published November 7th 2010 by Routledge
68. Handbook of Reading Research, Volume IV

    Edited by Michael L. Kamil, P. David Pearson, Elizabeth Birr Moje, Peter Afflerbach

    The Handbook of Reading Research is the research Handbook for the field. Each volume has come to define the field for the period of time it covers. Volume IV follows in this tradition. The editors extensively reviewed the reading research literature since the publication of Volume III in 2000, as...

    Published October 18th 2010 by Routledge
69. Handbook of Research on Children's and Young Adult Literature

    Edited by Shelby Wolf, Karen Coats, Patricia Enciso, Christine Jenkins

    This landmark volume is the first to bring together leading scholarship on children’s and young adult literature from three intersecting disciplines: Education, English, and Library and Information Science. Distinguished by its multidisciplinary approach, it describes and analyzes the different...

    Published October 18th 2010 by Routledge
70. Understanding Adult Functional Literacy

    Connecting Text Features, Task Demands, and Respondent Skills

    By Sheida White

    "This is a genuinely scholarly work ... It is based on [analysis of] the most up-to-date quantitative surveys that we have on adult literacy. These surveys are the gold standard in terms of documenting adult literacy in the United States ...The author analyzes these extensive surveys and puts...

    Published September 27th 2010 by Routledge