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Language and Literacy

9 Volume Set

Routledge Library Editions: Education Mini-Set I Language & Literacy

Originally published between 1971 and 1992. They examine the challenges for teachers in the UK and USA in this field, with a focus on both early years education and adolescent and adult literacy.

The volumes encompass elements of developmental psychology and literary theory and together provide a wide-ranging analysis of teaching and learning in the language and literary studies.

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  1. Rebirth of Rhetoric

    Edited by Richard Andrews

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

    Rebirth of Rhetoric brings together contributions from several fields to provide a forum in which a unifying theory for language and literature studies can be debated.The book does not aim to resurrect classical Renaissance rhetoric, but to remake it within a contemporary context. The context of...

    Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge

  2. Linguistics and the Teacher

    Edited by Ronald Carter

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

    Linguistics and the Teacher is a collection of essays by linguists on different aspects of the relationship between linguistics and education. All the contributors are united in their belief that linguistics should be a central element in the education of teachers, and argue for principled and...

    Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge

  3. The Powers of Literacy (RLE Edu I)

    A Genre Approach to Teaching Writing

    Edited by Bill Cope, Mary Kalantzis

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

    Literacy remains a contentious and polarized educational, media and political issue. What has emerged from the continuing debate is a recognition that literacy in education is allied closely with matters of language and culture, ideology and discourse, knowledge and power. Drawing perspectives...

    Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge

  4. Children and Learning to Read (RLE Edu I)

    By Elizabeth Goodacre

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

    This is a study of the nature of the process whereby children go about the business of learning to read. The author relates her own practical teaching experience closely to studies in developmental psychology, and also considers the special needs of individual children. In all, the book...

    Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge

  5. Language & Teaching

    A Psychological View

    By Peter Herriot

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

    Language is the basic means of communication in the classroom. It is therefore vital that teachers should know something about its acquisition, development, possible defects and the ways in which they may understand and develop its communicative powers. Peter Herriot describes the relationship with...

    Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge

  6. Achieving Literacy (RLE Edu I)

    Longitudinal Studies of Adolescents Learning to Read

    By Margaret Meek

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

    How children learn to read well and what kind of teaching helps them is a scarcely penetrated mystery. This book is a fascinating and informative research report by a group of teachers who set out to teach children who have failed to acquire a useful degree of literacy; in it they discuss their...

    Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge

  7. Beyond Initial Reading (RLE Edu I)

    By John Potts

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

    This book sets out a clear and logical framework for the teaching of reading throughout different age groups, whereby systematic progression can be developed within a structured framework. A detailed set of recommendations are offered and are both illustrated and justified, for the teacher to...

    Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge

  8. The Development of Meaning (RLE Edu I)

    A Study of Children's Use of Language

    By Joan Tough

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

    This book investigates children's use of language and considers its implications for children's learning at home and at school. The author compares the language used by children from different social environments at the ages of three, five and seven and considers the different approaches that...

    Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge

  9. Children into Pupils (RLE Edu I)

    A Study of Language in Early Schooling

    By Mary Willes

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

    This book makes work in the field of sociolinguistics easily accessible to working teachers and to teachers in training. It focuses on the crucial first weeks that children spend in school, and deals with talk as a joint production, in which teachers and pupils are engaged from the earliest stages...

    Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge