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Based on research from the National Reading Research Center (NRRC) at the Universities of Georgia and Maryland, this issue presents the contributors' sythesized work on reading motivation and engagement. Articles are devoted to the following topics: * the general motivation constructs related to reading; * home influences on reading motivation; * readers' responses to different types of text; * influences of classroom contexts; and * types of assessment on children's motivation.
A great story can lead a reader on a cultural and linguistic journey--especially if it's in two languages! Vietnamese Stories for Language Learners introduces 40 traditional Vietnamese folktales with bilingual Vietnamese and English versions presented on facing pages. Each story is followed by cultural notes, vocabulary lists, and a set of discussion questions and exercises for further comprehension. Online audio recordings by native speakers help readers improve their pronunciation and inflection, while a Vietnamese-English glossary provides an easy way to reference unfamiliar terms. Illustrations by award-winning Vietnamese illustrators Nguyen Thi Hop and Nguyen Dong help to bring these traditional tales to life. This book is a great supplementary reader for self-study learners or in Vietnamese language courses, but will be enjoyed by anyone who wishes to learn about Vietnamese folktales and culture. Learn Vietnamese the fun way--through the country's rich literary history! Audio recordings can be accessed at tuttlepublishing.com/downloadable-content.
Comprised of a study spanning over five years, this text looks at
four engineering co-op students as they write at work. Since the
contributors have a foot in both worlds -- work and school -- the
book should appeal to people who are interested in how students
learn to write as well as people who are interested in what writing
at work is like. Primarily concerned with whether engineers see
their writing as rhetorical or persuasive, the study attempts to
describe the students' changing understanding of what it is they do
when they write.
Comprised of a study spanning over five years, this text looks at
four engineering co-op students as they write at work. Since the
contributors have a foot in both worlds -- work and school -- the
book should appeal to people who are interested in how students
learn to write as well as people who are interested in what writing
at work is like. Primarily concerned with whether engineers see
their writing as rhetorical or persuasive, the study attempts to
describe the students' changing understanding of what it is they do
when they write.
In The Conspiracy of the Text, first published in 1986, Jeff Adams looks at an early stage in childhood to examine the ways in which children create social organisation and moral order. Adams shows how certain narratives, such as fairy tales, serve as a foundation for this system, and does this through a fascinating linguistic analysis of a young girl's reading of her favourite fairy tale, Beauty and the Beast. This title will be of interest to students of literary theory and linguistics.
"Stories from the Heart" is for, by, and about prospective and
practicing teachers understanding themselves as curious and
literate beings, making connections with colleagues, and
researching their own literacy and the literacy lives of their
students. It demonstrates the power and importance of story in our
own lives as literate individuals. Readers are encouraged to: tell,
write, or re-create the stories of their literacy lives in order to
understand how they learn and teach; begin the journey into writing
the stories of others' literacy lives; find support in their
researching endeavors; and examine the idea of framing stories by
using the work of other teachers and researchers.
Academic and practitioner journals in fields from electronics to
business to language studies, as well as the popular press, have
for over a decade been proclaiming the arrival of the "computer
revolution" and making far-reaching claims about the impact of
computers on modern western culture. Implicit in many arguments
about the revolutionary power of computers is the assumption that
communication, language, and words are intimately tied to culture
-- that the computer's transformation of communication means a
transformation, a revolutionizing, of culture.
In this volume, methodological, cultural, technological, and
political boundaries felt by writers are analyzed, translated, and
challenged in a way that will appeal to researchers, theorists,
graduate students, instructors, and managerial audiences. Instead
of extracting rules from previous research, the contributors,
working from multidisciplinary perspectives, describe and analyze
the social and technological contexts surrounding nonacademic
writing. Their essays present a formative rather than summative
outlook toward future research on nonacademic writing.
Memory has long been ignored by rhetoricians because the written
word has made memorization virtually obsolete. Recently however, as
part of a revival of interest in classical rhetoric, scholars have
begun to realize that memory offers vast possibilities for today's
writers. Synthesizing research from rhetoric, psychology,
philosophy, and literary and composition studies, this volume
brings together many historical and contemporary theories of
memory. Yet its focus is clear: memory is a generator of knowledge
and a creative force which deserves attention at the beginning of
and throughout the writing process.
This textbook provides an examination of modern literary theory and critical appreciation from the perspective of the creative writer. The book is intended for students of English literature and language, teachers, student teachers and teacher educators.
With World English, learners experience the world through content and ideas from National Geographic and TED, providing the motivation to talk about what's most important to them.
Although teachers are used to speaking to classes and groups of young people, they are often called upon to give presentations to adult groups. Such presentations - at a parent's meeting, PTA meeting, prize day or governor's board meeting - require an entirely different approach, preparation and delivery.;Covering all aspects of the presentation event, this book examines areas such as: overcoming fears of speaking in public; researching the audience and subject; planning, structuring and timing the presentation; choosing and preparing visual aids; and the importance of rehearsal.;Using checklists, case studies and activities taken directly from the educational environment, this book should be useful for any teacher setting out to give a presentation as a representative of their school.
Completely revised and updated in a second edition, this volume
represents the only book ever written that analyzes sports writing
and presents it as "exceptional" writing. Other books discuss
sports writers as "beat reporters" in one area of journalism,
whereas this book shows aspiring sports writers a myriad of
techniques to make their writing stand out. It takes the reader
through the entire process of sports writing: observation,
interviewing techniques, and various structures of articles; types
of "leads;" transitions within an article; types of endings; use of
statistics; do's and don'ts of sports writing; and many other style
and technique points. This text provides over 100 examples of leads
drawn from newspapers and magazines throughout the country, and
also offers up-to-date examples of sports jargon from virtually
every major and minor sport played in the U.S.
This volume explores adult work-world writing issues from the
perspectives of five seasoned professionals who have logged
hundreds of hours working with adults on complicated written
communication problems. It examines the gap between school-world
instructional practices and real-world problems and situations.
After describing the five major economic sectors which are writing
intensive, the text suggests curricular reforms which might better
prepare college-educated writers for these worlds. Because the
volume is based on the extensive work-world experiences of the
authors, it offers numerous examples of real-world writing problems
and strategies which illustrate concretely what goes wrong and what
needs to be done about it.
This volume describes the theoretical and empirical results of a
seven year collaborative effort of cognitive scientists to develop
a computational model for narrative understanding. Disciplines
represented include artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology,
communicative disorders, education, English, geography,
linguistics, and philosophy. The book argues for an organized
representational system -- a Deictic Center (DC) -- which is
constructed by readers from language in a text combined with their
world knowledge.
This volume describes the theoretical and empirical results of a
seven year collaborative effort of cognitive scientists to develop
a computational model for narrative understanding. Disciplines
represented include artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology,
communicative disorders, education, English, geography,
linguistics, and philosophy. The book argues for an organized
representational system -- a Deictic Center (DC) -- which is
constructed by readers from language in a text combined with their
world knowledge.
Researchers from a variety of disciplines have collected verbal
protocols of reading as a window on conscious reading processes.
Because such work has occurred in different disciplines, many who
have conducted verbal protocol analyses have been unaware of the
research of others. This volume brings together the existing
literature from the various fields in which verbal protocols of
reading have been generated. In so doing, the authors provide an
organized catalog of all conscious verbal processes reported in
studies to date -- the most complete analysis of conscious reading
now available in the literature.
This highly practical guide shows how learning support teachers and assistants can work effectively with secondary school pupils who are struggling with their reading. It relates directly to the working practices of teachers, steering them through issues such as: assessing the low-age reader working with reading withdrawal groups finding and creating resources for low-age readers constructing spelling strategies to support reading understanding the emotional dimension to being a poor reader how to effectively involve parents. Paul Blum offers valuable advice on how to make challenging mainstream subject textbooks accessible to low-aged readers and help on where to find good free resources as well as commercial materials to suit them. Exploring the vital relationship between the mainstream and learning support function, he also outlines the ways in which the two can be harnessed to make a significant difference to reading improvement.
Researchers from a variety of disciplines have collected verbal
protocols of reading as a window on conscious reading processes.
Because such work has occurred in different disciplines, many who
have conducted verbal protocol analyses have been unaware of the
research of others. This volume brings together the existing
literature from the various fields in which verbal protocols of
reading have been generated. In so doing, the authors provide an
organized catalog of all conscious verbal processes reported in
studies to date -- the most complete analysis of conscious reading
now available in the literature.
Effective Speaking provides the hard scientific information about audience psychology, text preparation, presentation methods, voice production, body language and persuasive advocacy which will help would-be speakers improve their performance. The emphasis throughout is on practical self-help, on methods which have been shown to work, with clear explanations of just why they are effective.
This is a classic edition of Andrew Ellis' acclaimed introduction to the scientific study of reading, writing and dyslexia, which now includes a new introduction from the author. The book describes the remarkable skills of reading and writing - how we acquire them, how we exercise them as skilled readers and writers, and what can go wrong with them in childhood disorders or as a result of brain damage. The new introduction reflects on some key research developments since the book was first published. Reading, Writing and Dyslexia is an engaging introduction to the field which is still completely relevant to today's readers. It will remain essential reading for all students of psychology and education, whilst also being accessible to parents and teachers.
Understanding, Evaluating, and Conducting Second Language Writing Research speaks to the rapidly growing area of second language writing by providing a uniquely balanced approach to L2 writing research. While other books favor either a qualitative or quantitative approach to second language acquisition (SLA) research, this text is comprehensive in scope and does not privilege one approach over the other, illuminating the strengths of each and the ways in which they might complement each other. It also provides equal weight to the cognitive and socio-cultural approaches to SLA. Containing an array of focal studies and suggestions for further reading, this text is the ideal resource for students beginning to conduct L2 writing research as well as for more experienced researchers who wish to expand their approach to conducting research.
?De acuerdo? 20 Simulaciones para la clase de espanol es el manual perfecto para estudiantes de espanol de nivel intermedio y avanzado que quieren desarrollar su destreza oral. El libro presenta 20 simulaciones que proporcionan un marco eficaz y motivador para el desarrollo de la destreza oral y la produccion del habla espontanea. Los estudiantes asumen un papel que les permite expresar opiniones, discutir y debatir dentro de un contexto significativo, preparandolos para situaciones de la vida real. Caracteristicas destacadas: amplia variedad de temas, tales como los negocios, la educacion, la salud y las redes sociales actividades de preparacion que ayudan al estudiante a participar plenamente en los debates secciones para el profesor y el estudiante, con explicaciones sobre como usar y participar en simulaciones Las versiones en color de las imagenes del libro pueden descargarse en https://www.routledge.com/products/9781138831087. ?De acuerdo? 20 Simulaciones para la clase de espanol es ideal para los niveles B1-C1 del MCER o los niveles intermedio-bajo a avanzado segun las guias de capacidad linguistica de ACTFL. ?De acuerdo? 20 Simulaciones para la clase de espanol is the ideal course for intermediate to advanced students of Spanish seeking to develop their speaking skills. The book presents 20 simulations which provide an effective and motivating framework for developing speaking skills and producing spontaneous speech. Students take on a role allowing them to express opinions, argue and debate within a meaningful context that prepares them for real-life situations. Key features: wide variety of topics, such as business, education, health and social media Preparatory activities to help students engage fully in the debates teacher and student sections with explanations on how to use and participate in simulations Full colour versions of the images in the book are available to download from https://www.routledge.com/products/9781138831087. ?De acuerdo? 20 Simulaciones para la clase de espanol is ideal for levels B1-C1 of the CEFR or Intermediate-Low to Advanced according to the ACTFL proficiency guidelines. |
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