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John Benjamins Publishing Co Ethnographies of Academic Writing Research:
Book SynopsisThis book illustrates the use of ethnography as an analytical approach to investigate academic writing, and provides critical insights into how academic writing research can benefit from the use of ethnographic methods. Throughout its six theoretical and practice-oriented studies, together with the introductory chapter, foreword and afterword, ethnography-related concepts like thick description, deep theorizing, participatory research, research reflexivity or ethics are discussed against the affordances of ethnography for the study of academic writing. The book is key reading for scholars, researchers and instructors in the areas of applied linguistics, academic writing, academic literacies and genre studies. It will also be useful to those lecturers and postgraduate students working in English for Academic Purposes and disciplinary writing. The volume provides ethnographically-oriented researchers with clear pointers about how to incorporate the telling of the inside story into their traditional main role as observers.Winner of the 9th edition of the AELFE's Enrique Alcaraz Research Award
£26.60
Springer Language Testing and Assessment: Encyclopedia of
Book SynopsisThis volume addresses the broad theme and specific topics associated with current thinking in the field of language testing and assessment. The volume offers •multiple perspectives on the ‘what’ (the ‘trait’) of languages, and the ‘how’ (‘the method’) of assessment •multiple approaches developed for assessment especially given the multiplicity of languages used by many diverse groups of learners in many different contexts •focus on the societal roles of language testers, their responsibility to be socially accountable and to ensure ethicality and professionalism •focus on language testing in multilingual and diverse contexts This is one of ten volumes of the Encyclopedia of Language and Education published by Springer. The Encyclopedia bears testimony to the dynamism and evolution of the language and education field, as it confronts the ever-burgeoning and irrepressible linguistic diversity and ongoing pressures and expectations placed on education around the world.Table of ContentsGeneral Editor’s Introduction / Nancy H. Hornberger Introduction to volume 7: Language Testing and Assessment / Elana Shohamy Contributors Reviewers Section 1: Assessing Language Domains 1. Assessing Oral and Literate Abilities / Alister Cumming 2. Assessment in Multilingual Societies / Rama Mathew 3. Assessing Communicative Language Ability: Models and their Components / James E. Purpura 4. Assessment at the Workplace / Kieran O’Loughlin 5. Testing Aptitude for Second Language Learning / Charles Stansfield and Paula Winke Section 2: Methods of Assessment 7. Alternative Assessment / Janna Fox 8. Task and Performance Based Assessment / Gillian Wigglesworth 9. Utilizing Technology in Language Assessment / Carol A. Chapelle 10. Large Scale Language Assessments / Antony John Kunnan 11. Criteria for Evaluating Language Quality / Glenn Fulcher 12. Methods of Test Validation / Xiaoming Xi 13. Utilizing Qualitative Methods for Assessment / Anne Lazaraton 14. Utilizing Psychometric Methods in Assessment / Micheline Chalhoub-Deville and Craig Deville 15. Training in Language Assessment / Margaret E. Malone 16. Using Corpora for Language Assessment / Lynda Taylor and Fiona Barker Section 3: Assessment in Education 17. Classroom-based Language Assessment / Pauline Rea-Dickins 18. Dynamic Assessment / James P. Lantolf and Matthew E. Poehner 19. Language Assessment Culture / Ofra Inbar-Lourie 20. Assessing Second/Additional Language of Diverse Populations / Constant Leung and Jo Lewkowicz 21. Assessment in Indigenous Language Programmes / Cath Rau 22. Utilizing Accommodations in Assessment / Jamal Abedi 23. Washback, Impact and Consequences / Liying Cheng 24. Educational Reform and Language Testing / Geoff Brindley 25. Assessing the Language of Young Learners / Alison L. Bailey Section 4: Assessment in Society 26. High-States Tests as de facto Language Education Policies / Kate Menken 27. The Socio-political and Power Dimensions of Tests / Tim McNamara 28. Ethics, Professionalism, Rights and Codes / Alan Davies 29. Language Assessment in Historical and Future Perspective / Bernard Spolsky Subject Index Name Index
£113.99
Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. 50 GREATEST HORROR STORIES
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£14.24
Central European University Press Literacy and Written Culture in Early Modern
Book SynopsisThe key aspect of this volume is to place Hungary on the map of European literacy rates over the whole period between the initial stimuli of Renaissance and Reformation and the developed, state-organized educational systems of the later 19th century. Toth's work is a broad international comparative analysis, concentrating on the long-term development of literacy rates and the use of written and oral culture in early modern societies. An examination is provided of elementarey schools and their teachers, as well as book reading among peasants and noblemen throughout the 16th to 19th centuries in Hungary. Significant sections are included on the development of libraries during the period and on the use of different languages, particularly Latin. By way of illustration examples are taken of village life, legal and administrative issues and the clergy to contribute to major debates in the field of language, literacy, linguistics and social history.Trade Review"This book is a model study of scrupulous rigor in its numerically minded social analysis, of challenging methodological innovation in its approach to the problem, and of marvelous insight into the social and cultural meaning of early modern literacy and illiteracy." * American Historical Review *"István Tóth is fully versed in the literature and provides a model of sensitive analysis and interpretation of the place of the written word in central European culture, from the peasantry on up tthrough the landed gentry and various levels of nobility... the depth of research, the felicity of the prose, the picaresque anecdotes, and the many insights into the nature of early-modern central European cultural and intellectual life should be enough to interest most scholars of the place and period in this book." * Journal of Modern History *"This book's great strength lies in careful analysis of rich archival evidence, impressively documented in footnotes..." * Libraries & Culture *"The author successfully combines quantitative research together with qualitative study of the place of reading among different social groups and by doing so, provides extremely valuable insights into religious life in different social groups.... The book is well translated and it has an index. The quantitative data does not disturb the flow of the description, and the colorful descriptions the author cited make this a very enjoyable read." * Religious Studies Review *"...offers a fascinating view of trends in literacy in Hungary in, basically, the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but with some earlier material on the aristocracy and some later information on the peasants." * Slavic Review *"The present work was first published in Hungarian in 1996 ... It is now published by CEU Press in not only flawless English but also under a quite different and rather more earnest title... may serve as an excellent introduction not only to the study of Hungarian literacy but also to the social history of the early modern period." * Slavonic and East European Review *"...a very well documented work, with abundant maps, tables." * Ungarn - Jahrbuch, Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Hungarologie *Table of ContentsPart 1 Door to the world of writing; the social history of elementary schools. Part 2 The written word is gaining ground slowly in the peasant culture. Part 3 Writing and reading capacities of the nobility. Part 4 The lower layer of nobility; the petty nobleman living in an oral world. Part 5 The culture of well-to-do noblemen; libraries and their proprietors. Part 6 Outlook in space and time Conclusion
£50.40
Fondo de Cultura Economica USA JUAN RULFO LOS CAMINOS DE LA FAMA PUBLICA
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Fondo de Cultura Economica USA Poesia No Completa
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Intersections of Diversity, Literacy, and Learner
Book SynopsisThis book invites readers to challenge, corroborate, and add to the discourse on more inclusive pedagogical practice. Presenting theoretically and empirically informed research, it highlights potential considerations regarding the intersections of diversity, literacy, and learner difficulties. These three areas provide a stage where opposing paradigms often pose challenges for educators and create unnecessary barriers to providing the best education for all learners. These barriers might reveal how students are positioned through a deficit lens rather than one that recognizes individual differences and how these learner differences sometimes result in labels or put students at increased risk of encountering difficulties. The contributing authors’ goals are to start and sustain a conversation that examines these perspectives and to offer counter-narratives to the deficit lens by recognizing that individual difference does not need to be a barrier to educational access. By examining opportunities for more inclusive educational success, this book encourages discourse among key stakeholders; further, it goes beyond problematizing to offer new avenues for optimal learning and inclusive pedagogy across multiple contexts.Table of Contents1. Premise of the Book: Considering Learner Difference and Literacy.- Section I Literacy Contexts: A Matter of Difference.- 2. “I’m Writing to Teach Those Who Do Not Know”: Making the Case for Inclusive Pedagogy that Values Difference and Capitalizes on Students’ Expertise.- 3. Collaboration in career and technical education to support all learners: Reflections and practices from the field.- 4. Effective planning and revising strategies for meeting the needs of students with learning difficulties and literacy needs.- 5. (Re)Framing Difficulty: ELLs and Literacy Instruction.- 6. Listen to their Voices: Early childhood Professionals Reflect on their Experiences Teaching Language Skills to Young Children.- 7. Stories of Teaching (and Learning how to Teach) Literacy to Diverse Learners in a Language Classroom.- Section II It’s Personal: Advocacy and Action.- 8. Learner Differences and Second Language Learning: A Post-Colonial Perspective.- 9. The Construction of Literacy Identity: Alice’s Story.- 10. An Ecological Examination of “Literacies”: A Mother’s Journey.- Section III Moving Forward & Building Bridges.- 11. Constructing Successful School Models for Inclusive Literacy: Supporting Student Success Through Strategic Instruction in Diverse Settings.- 12. Moving all up at Sireira Moderna Academy.- 13. Final Thoughts: Conversations, Intersections, and Education for All: Where to?.- Afterword.
£85.49
Shell Education Pub Promote Reading Gains with Differentiated Instruction: Ready-To-Use Lessons for Grades 3-5
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Information Age Publishing How to End the Reading War and Serve the Literacy
Book SynopsisThe twenty-first century Reading War is, in fact, nothing new, but some of the details are unique to our current culture driven by social media. This volume seeks to examine the current Reading War in the context of the historical recurrence of public and political debates around student reading abilities and achievement.Grounded in a media fascination with the "science of reading" and fueled by a rise in advocates for students with dyslexia, the current Reading War has resulted in some deeply troubling reading policy, grade retention and intensive phonics programs.This primer for parents, policy makers, and people who care confronts some of the most compelling but misunderstood aspects of teaching reading in the U.S. while also offering a way toward ending the Reading War in order to serve all students, regardless of their needs.The revised/expanded 2nd edition adds developments around the "science of reading," including the expanding impact on state policy and legislation as well as robust additions to the research base around teaching students to read.
£48.45
Information Age Publishing How to End the Reading War and Serve the Literacy
Book SynopsisThe twenty-first century Reading War is, in fact, nothing new, but some of the details are unique to our current culture driven by social media. This volume seeks to examine the current Reading War in the context of the historical recurrence of public and political debates around student reading abilities and achievement.Grounded in a media fascination with the "science of reading" and fueled by a rise in advocates for students with dyslexia, the current Reading War has resulted in some deeply troubling reading policy, grade retention and intensive phonics programs.This primer for parents, policy makers, and people who care confronts some of the most compelling but misunderstood aspects of teaching reading in the U.S. while also offering a way toward ending the Reading War in order to serve all students, regardless of their needs.The revised/expanded 2nd edition adds developments around the "science of reading," including the expanding impact on state policy and legislation as well as robust additions to the research base around teaching students to read.
£86.70
Information Age Publishing Toward Critical Multimodality: Theory, Research,
Book SynopsisThis edited volume seeks to answer the question, "What does it mean to be a critical multimodal scholar in educational spaces?" Toward Critical Multimodality highlights how choices made throughout multimodal design and research processes are critically-oriented and inextricably linked to power. We show how social semiotics and multimodality inform engagement with criticality in educational spaces through questioning dominant narratives (e.g., white, cisheteropatriarchal, ableist, classist perspectives), exploring relationships between selves and space, problematizing and reimagining educational practices, and dreaming of educational futures that are just, anti-oppressive, and with room for all to thrive while learning.These chapters demonstrate how studying multiple modalities in interaction (e.g., image, writing, color, spatial layout, gaze, proxemics, gestures) can reveal how power operates, provide students with opportunities to explore themselves and their identities with respect to power, and provide a vehicle for scholars to disrupt and transform oppressive educational practices. Furthermore, multiple chapters show alternative ways to display, construct and share knowledge as transformative pedagogical practice in learning environments. We reframe social semiotics and multimodality as an integral part of decentering dominant ideas of power and what "counts" as purposeful meaning making by highlighting how criticality and multimodality integrate theoretically and methodologically.
£54.15
Information Age Publishing Toward Critical Multimodality: Theory, Research,
Book SynopsisThis edited volume seeks to answer the question, "What does it mean to be a critical multimodal scholar in educational spaces?" Toward Critical Multimodality highlights how choices made throughout multimodal design and research processes are critically-oriented and inextricably linked to power. We show how social semiotics and multimodality inform engagement with criticality in educational spaces through questioning dominant narratives (e.g., white, cisheteropatriarchal, ableist, classist perspectives), exploring relationships between selves and space, problematizing and reimagining educational practices, and dreaming of educational futures that are just, anti-oppressive, and with room for all to thrive while learning.These chapters demonstrate how studying multiple modalities in interaction (e.g., image, writing, color, spatial layout, gaze, proxemics, gestures) can reveal how power operates, provide students with opportunities to explore themselves and their identities with respect to power, and provide a vehicle for scholars to disrupt and transform oppressive educational practices. Furthermore, multiple chapters show alternative ways to display, construct and share knowledge as transformative pedagogical practice in learning environments. We reframe social semiotics and multimodality as an integral part of decentering dominant ideas of power and what "counts" as purposeful meaning making by highlighting how criticality and multimodality integrate theoretically and methodologically.
£91.80
Information Age Publishing Visual Literacy in the K-12 Social Studies
Book SynopsisVisual Literacy in the K-12 Social Studies Classroom is an engaging resource that unites pedagogical theory and practical strategies, empowering teachers to foster critical thinking and cultural awareness among students through the interpretation and creation of visual content. Packed with a variety of visual tools, resources, teacher-tested lesson plans, and more, this book showcases the power of leveraging visual literacy to craft authentic and meaningful social studies learning experiences that resonate with learners of all ages.
£48.45
Information Age Publishing Visual Literacy in the K-12 Social Studies
Book SynopsisVisual Literacy in the K-12 Social Studies Classroom is an engaging resource that unites pedagogical theory and practical strategies, empowering teachers to foster critical thinking and cultural awareness among students through the interpretation and creation of visual content. Packed with a variety of visual tools, resources, teacher-tested lesson plans, and more, this book showcases the power of leveraging visual literacy to craft authentic and meaningful social studies learning experiences that resonate with learners of all ages.
£86.70
