English & Literacy/Language Arts Books

New and Published Books – Page 8

71. 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
72. Learning to Read the Numbers

    Integrating Critical Literacy and Critical Numeracy in K-8 Classrooms A Co-Publication of The National Council of Teachers of English and Routledge

    By David J. Whitin, Phyllis E. Whitin

    Being a critical reader of numerical information is an integral part of being literate in today’s data-drenched world. Uniquely addressing both mathematics and language issues, this text shows how critical readers dig beneath the surface of data to better evaluate their usefulness and to understand...

    Published August 29th 2010 by Routledge
73. Teacher Preparation for Linguistically Diverse Classrooms

    A Resource for Teacher Educators

    Edited by Tamara Lucas

    Teacher educators today need knowledge and practical ideas about how to prepare all pre-service and in-service teachers (not just bilingual or ESL specialists) to teach the growing number of students in K-12 classrooms in the United States who speak native languages other than English. This book is...

    Published August 22nd 2010 by Routledge
74. Re-framing Literacy

    Teaching and Learning in English and the Language Arts

    By Richard Andrews

    Series: Language, Culture, and Teaching Series

    Imaginative and attractive, cutting edge in its conception, this text explicates a model for the integration of language arts and literacy education based on the notion of framing. The act of framing – not frames in themselves – provides a creative and critical approach to English as a subject....

    Published August 1st 2010 by Routledge
75. Becoming Biliterate

    Identity, Ideology, and Learning to Read and Write in Two Languages

    By Bobbie Kabuto

    Through the real-life context of one child learning to be bilingual and biliterate, this book raises questions and provides a context for pre-service and practicing teachers to understand and reflect on how children learn to read and write in multiple languages. Highlighting the social and...

    Published July 27th 2010 by Routledge
76. Understanding Advanced Second-Language Reading

    By Elizabeth Bernhardt

    What distinguishes this book is its broad, yet thorough, view of theory, process, and research on adult second-language reading. Offering extensive discussions of upper-register second-language texts (both expository and narrative) that adult second-language readers encounter daily across the globe...

    Published July 13th 2010 by Routledge
77. Young Adult Literature and Adolescent Identity Across Cultures and Classrooms

    Contexts for the Literary Lives of Teens

    Edited by Janet Alsup

    Taking a critical, research-oriented perspective, this exploration of the theoretical, empirical, and pedagogical connections between the reading and teaching of young adult literature and adolescent identity development centers around three key questions: Who are the teens reading young adult...

    Published April 29th 2010 by Routledge
78. Social Justice Pedagogy Across the Curriculum

    The Practice of Freedom

    Edited by Thandeka K. Chapman, Nikola Hobbel

    Series: Language, Culture, and Teaching Series

    What knowledge and tools do pre- and in-service educators need to teach for and about social justice across the curriculum in K-12 classrooms? This compelling text synthesizes in one volume historical foundations, philosophic/theoretical conceptualizations, and applications of social justice...

    Published March 30th 2010 by Routledge
79. Beyond the Grammar Wars

    A Resource for Teachers and Students on Developing Language Knowledge in the English/Literacy Classroom

    Edited by Terry Locke

    Are there evidence-based answers to the broad question "What explicit knowledge about language in teachers and/or students appears to enhance literacy development in some way"? Distinguished by its global perspective, its currency, and its comprehensiveness, Beyond the Grammar Wars: provides an...

    Published March 23rd 2010 by Routledge
80. Nonnative Speaker English Teachers

    Research, Pedagogy, and Professional Growth

    By George Braine

    Series: ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series

    According to current estimates, about eighty percent of English teachers worldwide are nonnative speakers of the language. The nonnative speaker movement began a decade ago to counter the discrimination faced by these teachers and to champion their causes. As the first single-authored volume on the...

    Published February 18th 2010 by Routledge