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Literacies eBook Series

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  • Oral Literacies

    When Adults Read Aloud

    by Sam Duncan ...
    Series series Literacies
    This is the first book to focus exclusively on an examination of early 21st-century adult reading aloud. The dominant contemporary image of reading in much of the world is that of a silent, solitary activity. This book challenges this dominant discourse, acknowledging the diversity of reading practices that adults perform or experience in different communities, languages, contexts and phases of ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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  • English for the IB MYP 3

    by Zara Kaiserimam, Stephanie Barrus, N/A Ana de Castro ...
    Exam Board: MYPLevel: IBSubject: EnglishFirst Teaching: September 2016First Exam: June 2017Has been updated for the revised curriculum from September 2020Develop your skills to become an inquiring learner; ensure you navigate the MYP framework with confidence using a concept-driven and assessment-focused approach to English presented in global contexts.- Develop conceptual understanding wi... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Future of the Word

    by Chris Goodall ...
    The average young adult in the US reads for about 7 minutes a day and the figure isnt much higher in Britain. The last few decades have seen striking and nearly continuous falls in the amount of time individuals spend with books and other printed material. And perhaps as a result the average level of literacy in the British and US populations is declining: our ability to comprehend complex writing ... Read more

    $3.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Qualitative Research

    by David Silverman ...
    Series series Very Short, Fairly Interesting & Cheap Books
    The Second Edition of Qualitative Research provides a refreshing introduction to doing and debating qualitative research. The author uses updated content, ranging from photographs to novels and newspaper stories, to demonstrate how getting to grips with qualitative methods means asking ourselves fundamental questions about how we are influenced by contemporary culture.Conceived by Chris Grey as an ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Creating Autoethnographies

    by Tessa Muncey ...
    Creating Autoethnographies is an introduction to autoethnography, a form of autobiographical personal narrative that explores the writer′s experience of life. The first ever practical text on this increasingly popular research method, it provides a background and considers some of the criticisms of the approach. It is suitable for all social science students, both at postgraduate and also upper ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Projects in Linguistics and Language Studies, Third Edition

    by Alison Wray, Aileen Bloomer ...
    Projects in Linguistics and Language Studies, Third Edition, is your essential guide when embarking on a research project in linguistics or English language.It is clearly divided into the subject areas that most appeal to you as a student: psycholinguistics; first- and second-language acquisition; structure and meaning; sociolinguistics; language and gender; accents and dialects; and the history ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Local Literacies

    Reading and Writing in One Community

    by David Barton, Mary Hamilton ...
    Series series Routledge Linguistics Classics
    Local Literacies is a unique detailed study of the role of reading and writing in people’s everyday lives. By concentrating on a selection of people in a particular community in Lancaster, England, the authors analyse how they use literacy in their day-to-day lives. It follows four people in detail examining how they use local media, their participation in public life, the role of literacy in ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Learning to be Literate

    Multilingual Perspectives

    by Prof. Viv Edwards ...
    Series Book 3 - MM Textbooks
    This textbook brings together research on literacy and multilingualism from a variety of settings: the learning of English in migrant destinations, immersion and bilingual education, and the maintenance of heritage languages. Designed to be accessible to students from a wide range of disciplines, the book explores multilingualism as a global phenomenon at both the individual and societal level, ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Investigating Media Discourse

    by ANNE O'KEEFFE ...
    Series series Domains of Discourse
    Investigating Media Discourse explores spoken interactions in the media, drawing on contemporary sources from the English speaking world including chat shows, radio phone-ins and political interviews with leaders such as Tony Blair and George W.Bush.The main theoretical framework used in this work is influenced by Goffman, where each media encounter is viewed as a three-way participation framework ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Bilingualism in International Schools

    by Maurice CARDER ...
    International Schools have developed since their inception from a largely native English-speaking student body to schools such as the author’s, the Vienna International School (VIS), where there are students of 90 nationalities with 65 mother tongues. Maurice Carder proposes a “three-programme model” for addressing the language and curricula needs of these students: a content-based second language ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Primary English Teaching

    An Introduction to Language, Literacy and Learning

    Series series Published in association with the UKLA
    This comprehensive introduction to language, literacy and learning in the primary school explores the theoretical issues that underpin pedagogical practice in the primary English language classroom in a straightforward manner, enabling readers to understand the resulting practice and curriculum offerings in English primary schools today.The contributors explore new initiatives in primary language ... Read more

    $69.29 USD

  • Desirable Literacies

    Approaches to Language and Literacy in the Early Years

    Series series Published in association with the UKLA
    What are the ways in which young children learn to communicate? Collating their extensive experience of language and literacy in the early years, the contributors explore key aspects of this topic, linking practical ideas for early years settings and classrooms to relevant theory and research.This second edition is updated to take into account important developments in research, policy and ... Read more

    $87.29 USD