Literacy and Language Teaching This insightful book argues that literacy is - and should be - an organizing principle for foreign language education. It addresses key research findings in cognitive theory, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, language acquisition, and literacy studies, and attempts to put literary, cultural, linguistic, and cognitive theory on a productive parity with classroom practice. Aimed at teachers as well as language researchers, it puts forward a discovery approach to teaching reading and writing as highly interrelated acts of communication, at all levels of language study. An excellent resource. By Richard Kern - (OUP)   Order Now > Book     Agendas for Second Language Literacy This book goes beyond the second language classroom to examine the sociopolitical, economic, familial, and educational agendas that influence an immigrant's attainment of literacy in a new language. Aimed at new and experienced teachers involved in second language education, whether their students are in special language classes, bilingual education, or enrolled in the mainstream curriculum, this book provides valuable insights from individuals responsible for developing second language literacy policies in the political, labour, and educational sectors. By Sandra Lee McKay - (CUP)   Order Now > Book       Text, Role and Context - Developing academic literacies This insightful book examines the questions of what it means to be literate within academic contexts; and how literacy practitioners can cooperate with discipline-specific faculty, and with their students, to explore this issue and to work towards common goals. The book's author advocates a 'socioliterate' approach in which students are asked to draw on their experiences with genres and discourse communities in order to interpret, produce, and critique texts within specific academic contexts. She also deonstrates how literacy practitioners can act as mediators within academic communities, working with discipline-specific faculty in pedagogical endeavours, conducting research across the curriculum, and encouraging students to investigate and reflect upon the academic texts, roles, and contexts they encounter. By Ann M. Johns - (CUP)   Order Now > Book     Linking Literacies - Perspectives on L2 Reading-Writing Connections Provides the most up to date theoretical overview of the connection between reading and writing in second language acquisition. Brings together a truly authoritative collection of developments in reading-writing relations research and pedagogy. Papers are organized into areas such as Theory, Research, and History; Teaching Reading as Writing and Writing as Reading in the language classroom; (E)Merging Literacies and the Challenge of Textual Ownership, and Technology-Assisted Reading and Writing. By Diane Belcher and Alan Hirvela, Editors - (University of Michigan Press)   Order Now > Paperback Edition | Hardback Edition     Back to Bookstore