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  • Western Higher Education in Global Contexts

    Series series Expansion and Internationalization of Higher Education in Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East
    The globalization of American style higher education is a field of study that is undergoing a significant phase with the current expansion of American branch campuses and curricula around the world. This volume contributes to the scholarship on the project of implementing and expanding U.S. influenced curricula in the Middle East and Asia. Many of the branch campus projects are only a few decades ... Read more

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  • Popular Culture and Representations of Literacy

    Series series Routledge Research in Literacy
    Movies are filled with scenes of people of all ages, sexes, races, and social classes reading and writing in widely varied contexts and purposes. Yet these scenes go largely unnoticed, despite the fact that these images recreate and reinforce pervasive concepts and perceptions of literacy.This book addresses how everyday literacy practices are represented in popular culture, specifically in ... Read more

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    Language as a Local Practice addresses the questions of language, locality and practice as a way of moving forward in our understanding of how language operates as an integrated social and spatial activity.By taking each of these three elements – language, locality and practice – and exploring how they relate to each other, Language as a Local Practice opens up new ways of thinking about language. ... Read more

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  • Literacy Practices and Perceptions of Agency

    Composing Identities

    In this book, Bronwyn T. Williams explores how perceptions of agency—whether a person perceives and feels able to read and write successfully in a given context—are critical in terms of how people perform their literate identities. Drawing on interviews and observations with students in several countries, he examines the intersections of the social and the personal in relation to how and, ... Read more

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  • Understanding English Language Variation in U.S. Schools

    Series series Multicultural Education Series
    In today’s culturally diverse classrooms, students possess and use many culturally, ethnically, and regionally diverse English language varieties that may differ from standardized English. This book helps classroom teachers become attuned to these differences and offers practical strategies to support student achievement while fostering positive language attitudes in classrooms and beyond. The ... Read more

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  • Teaching Speaking and Listening

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    by Ann Locke ...
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  • Language, Culture, and Teaching

    Critical Perspectives

    by Sonia Nieto ...
    Series series Language, Culture, and Teaching Series
    Distinguished multiculturalist Sonia Nieto speaks directly to current and future teachers in this thoughtful integration of a selection of her key writings with creative pedagogical features. Offering information, insights, and motivation to teach students of diverse cultural, racial, and linguistic backgrounds, examples are included throughout to illustrate real-life dilemmas about diversity that ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Reading Assessment

    A One-Stop Resource for Prospective and Practicing Educators

    The Handbook of Reading Assessment, Second Edition, covers the wide range of reading assessments educators must be able to use and understand to effectively assess and instruct their students. Comprehensive and filled with numerous authentic examples, the text addresses informal classroom based assessment, progress monitoring, individual norm-referenced assessment, and group norm-referenced or ... Read more

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    Edited by Prue Goodwin ...
    Now in its fourth edition, The Literate Classroom combines a range of refreshing and challenging viewpoints from experienced classroom practitioners in order to offer practical and effective approaches to teaching reading and writing to primary students. Over the last few years, how teachers talk with children about their learning has been missing from much of the documentation going into school, ... Read more

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    English Young Adult Fiction in Post-Apartheid South Africa

    by Judith Inggs ...
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