Language and Literacy Teaching
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Multimodal Composing in Classrooms
Learning and Teaching for the Digital World
Taking a close look at multimodal composing as an essential new literacy in schools, this volume draws from contextualized case studies across educational contexts to provide detailed portraits of teachers and students at work in classrooms. Authors elaborate key issues in transforming classrooms...
Published April 3rd 2012 by Routledge
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New Media Literacies and Participatory Popular Culture Across Borders
How do students’ online literacy practices intersect with online popular culture? In this book scholars from a range of countries including Australia, Lebanon, Nepal, Qatar, South Africa, Turkey, and the United States illustrate and analyze how literacy practices that are mediated through and...
Published April 4th 2012 by Routledge
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Online Language Teacher Education
TESOL Perspectives
More and more, ESL/EFL teachers are required by their employers to obtain a Master’s degree in TESOL. Thousands of ESL/EFL teachers are acquiring professional skills and knowledge through online and distance education instructional models. Filling a growing need and making an important contribution...
Published June 17th 2012 by Routledge
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Reading at a Crossroads?
Disjunctures and Continuities in Conceptions and Practices of Reading in the 21st Century
The Internet is transforming the experience of reading and learning-through-reading. Is this transformation effecting a radical change in reading processes as readers synthesize understandings from fragments across multiple texts? Or, conversely, is the Internet merely a new place to use the same...
To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge
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Learning the Virtual Life
Public Pedagogy in a Digital World
Digital technologies have transformed cultural perceptions of learning and what it means to be literate, expanding the importance of experience alongside interpretation and reflection. Learning the Virtual Life offers ways to consider the local and global effects of digital media on educational...
Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
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Teaching Literature in Virtual Worlds
Immersive Learning in English Studies
What are the realities and possibilities of utilizing on-line virtual worlds as teaching tools for specific literary works? Through engaging and surprising stories from classrooms where virtual worlds are in use, this book invites readers to understand and participate in this emerging and valuable...
Published October 9th 2011 by Routledge
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Multiliteracies in Motion
Current Theory and Practice
The realities of new technological and social conditions since the 1990s demand a new approach to literacy teaching. Looking onward from the original statement of aims of the multiliteracies movement in 1996, this volume brings together top-quality scholarship and research that has embraced the...
Published November 9th 2009 by Routledge
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Virtual Literacies
Interactive Spaces for Children and Young People
Series: Routledge Research in Education
The growth of interest in virtual worlds and other online spaces for children and young people raises important issues for literacy educators and researchers. This book is a timely and much-needed collection of current research in the area. It provides a synthesis of knowledge and understanding and...
Published October 18th 2012 by Routledge
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Pedagogy of Multiliteracies
Rewriting Goldilocks
Series: Routledge Research in Education
Based on case studies from public schools in Toronto, Canada, this book chronicles an inspiring five-year journey to develop thinking about and teaching literacy for the 21st century. The research, which was classroom-based and developed by public school teachers in collaboration with university...
Published July 12th 2011 by Routledge
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WorldCALL
International Perspectives on Computer-Assisted Language Learning
Series: Routledge Studies in Computer Assisted Language Learning
As technological innovation continues to affect language pedagogy, there is an increasing demand for information, exemplars, analysis and guidance. This edited volume focuses on international perspectives in Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) in all of its forms, including Technology...
Published December 20th 2010 by Routledge


