Educational Technology & e-Learning

Language and Literacy Teaching

  1. Multimodal Composing in Classrooms

    Learning and Teaching for the Digital World

    Edited by Suzanne M. Miller, Mary B. McVee

    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

  2. New Media Literacies and Participatory Popular Culture Across Borders

    Edited by Bronwyn Williams, Amy A. Zenger

    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

  3. Online Language Teacher Education

    TESOL Perspectives

    Edited by Liz England

    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

  4. Reading at a Crossroads?

    Disjunctures and Continuities in Conceptions and Practices of Reading in the 21st Century

    Edited by Rand J. Spiro, Michael Deschryver, Michelle S. Hagerman, Paul Morsink, Penny Thompson

    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

  5. Learning the Virtual Life

    Public Pedagogy in a Digital World

    Edited by Peter Pericles Trifonas

    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

  6. Teaching Literature in Virtual Worlds

    Immersive Learning in English Studies

    Edited by Allen Webb

    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

  7. Multiliteracies in Motion

    Current Theory and Practice

    Edited by David R. Cole, Darren Lee Pullen

    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

  8. Virtual Literacies

    Interactive Spaces for Children and Young People

    Edited by Guy Merchant, Julia Gillen, Jackie Marsh, Julia Davies

    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

  9. Pedagogy of Multiliteracies

    Rewriting Goldilocks

    By Heather Lotherington

    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

  10. WorldCALL

    International Perspectives on Computer-Assisted Language Learning

    Edited by Mike Levy, Françoise Blin, Claire Bradin Siskin, Osamu Takeuchi

    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