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  • The Mourners' Bench

    How God Saved An Illiterate Sinner Like Me

    by Aron Seaborn ...
    Growing up wasn't easy for Aron Seaborn, the second oldest son of Northampton county sharecroppers. Despite an intense desire to attend school, Aron was relegated to child servitude to help sustain his growing family. At the age of six, Aron had to forego reading, writing and arithmetic to plow a mule alongside his older brother and father in the menacing elements of the North Carolina summers and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Reclaiming Writing

    Composing Spaces for Identities, Relationships, and Actions

    Edited by Richard J. Meyer, Kathryn F. Whitmore ...
    With passion, clarity, and rich examples, Reclaiming Writing is dedicated to reawakening the journeys that writers take as they make sense of, think about, and speak back to their worlds in this era of high-stakes testing and mandated curricula. Classrooms and out-of-school settings are described and analyzed in exciting and groundbreaking narratives that provide insights into the many ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Teaching English to Young Learners

    Critical Issues in Language Teaching with 3-12 Year Olds

    Edited by Dr Janice Bland ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Guidebooks for Language Teachers
    Aimed at student teachers, educators and practitioners, Teaching English Language to Young Learners outlines and explains the crucial issues, themes and scenarios relating to this area of teaching. Each chapter by a leading international scholar offers a thorough introduction to a central theme of English as a foreign language (EFL) with preteens, with clear presentation of the theoretical ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • Literacy Practices in Transition

    Perspectives from the Nordic Countries

    Edited by Anne Pitkänen-Huhta, Lars Holm ...
    Series Book 28 - New Perspectives on Language and Education
    Literacy Practices in Transition explores the connections between local, situated literacy practices and global processes of mobility in the geographical space of the Nordic countries, an example of contemporary mobile societies. The detailed empirical analyses show how these connections affect individuals, practices and policies; how the global and local meet in discourses and practices and how ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Playing Their Way into Literacies

    Reading, Writing, and Belonging in the Early Childhood Classroom

    by Karen E. Wohlwend ...
    Series series Language & Literacy
    “This book provides a theoretical and empirical foundation for the development of new and exciting pedagogical approaches to the teaching and learning of digital literacies in the earliest years of schooling... researchers, educators, and policymakers alike ignore its key messages at their peril in the decades ahead.”—From the Foreword byJackie Marsh, the University of Sheffield, UK“Play, too ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • The Style and Timbre of English Speech and Literature

    by Marklen E. Konurbaev ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The book introduces the reader into the world of mental perception of literary contents. Based on the research in modern semantics, functional stylistics and cognitive phonetics, it explores the way linguistic elements of a literary work cause readers to form a single perception shape identified as a cultural, literary or social stereotype. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Reading Time

    The Literate Lives of Urban Secondary Students and Their Families

    by Catherine Compton-Lilly ...
    Series series Language & Literacy
    While teachers cannot travel back in time to visit their students at earlier ages, they can draw on the rich sets of experiences and knowledge that students bring to classrooms. In her latest book, Catherine Compton-Lilly examines the literacy practices and school trajectories of eight middle school students and their families. Through a unique longitudinal lens—the author has studied these same ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Multiliteracies in World Language Education

    Edited by Yuri Kumagai, Ana López-Sánchez, Sujane Wu ...
    Series series Language, Culture, and Teaching Series
    Putting a multiliteracies framework at the center of the world language curriculum, this volume brings together college-level curricular innovations and classroom projects that address differences in meaning and worldviews expressed in learners’ primary and target languages. Offering a rich understanding of languages, genres, and modalities as socioculturally situated semiotic systems, it ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Learner-Centered English Language Education

    The Selected Works of David Nunan

    by David Nunan ...
    Series series World Library of Educationalists
    This carefully crafted collection provides a snapshot of the evolution of David Nunan‘s theoretical and empirical contributions to the field of second language education over the last 40 years. The volume focuses on the development of his work on second language curricula, and in particular, the work for which he is best known: learner-centered education and task-based learning and teaching. David ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Don't Leave the Story in the Book

    Using Literature to Guide Inquiry in Early Childhood Classrooms

    by Mary Hynes-Berry ...
    Series series Early Childhood Educationi
    “Passion and wonder are in short supply in schools these days. If you want to bring powerful stories into your classroom that inspire curiosity and questions, spark deep thinking and cultivate thoughtful conversations, embrace this book!”—Anne Goudvis, consultant and author“Don’t Leave the Story in the Bookis a boon to every classroom teacher, for it brings such a wonder of spontaneity and humor ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • The Resilience of Language

    What Gesture Creation in Deaf Children Can Tell Us About How All Children Learn Language

    by Susan Goldin-Meadow ...
    Series series Essays in Developmental Psychology
    Imagine a child who has never seen or heard any language at all. Would such a child be able to invent a language on her own? Despite what one might guess, the children described in this book make it clear that the answer to this question is 'yes'. The children are congenitally deaf and cannot learn the spoken language that surrounds them. In addition, they have not yet been exposed to sign ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Language and Superdiversity

    Edited by Karel Arnaut, Jan Blommaert, Ben Rampton, Massimiliano Spotti ...
    A first synthesis of work done in sociolinguistic superdiversity, this volume offers a substantial introduction to the field and the issues and state-of-the-art research papers organized around three themes: Sketching the paradigm, Sociolinguistic complexity, Policing complexity. The focus is to show how complexity rather than plurality can serve as a lens through which an equally vast range of ... Read more

    $68.99 USD