Literacy Assessment and Intervention for Classroom Teachers
Literacy Assessment and Intervention for Classroom Teachers

Author: Beverly A. DeVries

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-04-25

Total Pages: 599

ISBN-13: 1000856240

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The Sixth Edition of this comprehensive resource helps future and practicing teachers recognize and assess literacy problems, while providing practical, effective intervention strategies to help every student succeed. DeVries thoroughly explores all major components of literacy, offering an overview of pertinent research, suggested methods and tools for diagnosis and assessment, intervention strategies and activities, and technology applications to increase students' skills. Substantively updated to reflect the needs of teachers in increasingly diverse classrooms, the Sixth Edition addresses scaffolding for English language learners and the importance of using technology and online resources. It presents appropriate instructional strategies and tailored teaching ideas to help both teachers and their students. The valuable appendices feature assessment tools, instructions, and visuals for creating and implementing the book's more than 150 instructional strategies and activities, plus other resources. New to the Sixth Edition: Up to date and in line with national, state, and district literacy standards, this edition covers the latest shifts in teaching and the evolution of these standards New material on equity and inclusive literacy instruction, understanding the science of reading, using technology effectively, and reading and writing informational and narrative texts New intervention strategies and activities are featured in all chapters and highlight a stronger technology component Revamped companion website with additional tools, videos, resources, and examples of teachers using assessment strategies

Engaging Language Learners in Contemporary Classrooms
Engaging Language Learners in Contemporary Classrooms

Author: Sarah Mercer

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1108445934

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This accessible book offers a fresh perspective on engagement, with an emphasis on how teachers can create the conditions for active engagement and the role learners can play in shaping the way they learn. Drawing on extensive theoretical knowledge, the book takes an applied approach, providing clear principles and practical strategies for teachers.

Australian Children's Books: 1973-1988
Australian Children's Books: 1973-1988

Author: Marcie Muir

Publisher: Melbourne University

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 514

ISBN-13:

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Volume two of a reference work listing all children's books by Australians. Thsi volume covers the period from 1973 to 1988. Entries provide physical descriptions, dates, publishers, illustrations, awards received and, in some cases, remarks on the content. Entries are arrnaged by author. Title and illustrator indexes are included

Conversation Analysis and Second Language Pedagogy
Conversation Analysis and Second Language Pedagogy

Author: Jean Wong

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-08-03

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 0429947674

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Now in its second edition, this volume offers a strong synthesis of classic and current work in conversation analysis (CA), usefully encapsulated in a model of interactional practices that comprise interactional competence. Through this synthesis, Wong and Waring demonstrate how CA findings can help to increase language teachers’ awareness of the spoken language and suggest ways of applying that knowledge to teaching second language interaction skills. The Second Edition features: Substantial updates that include new findings on interactional practices Reconceptualized, reorganized, and revised content for greater accuracy, clarity, and readability Expanded key concepts glossary at the end of each chapter New tasks with more transcripts of actual talk New authors' stories The book is geared towards current and prospective second or foreign language teachers, material developers, and other language professionals, and assumes neither background knowledge of conversation analysis nor its connection to second language teaching. It also serves as a handy reference for those interested in key CA findings on social interaction.

Classification of Developmental Language Disorders
Classification of Developmental Language Disorders

Author: Ludo Verhoeven

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2003-09-12

Total Pages: 463

ISBN-13: 1135638071

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Chapters written by leading authorities offer current perspectives on the origins and development of language disorders. They address the question: How can the child's linguistic environment be restructured so that children at risk can develop important adaptive skills in the domains of self-care, social interaction, and problem solving? This theory-based, but practical book emphasizes the importance of accurate definitions of subtypes for assessment and intervention. It will be of interest to students, researchers, and practitioners in the field of developmental language disorders.

Reflexivity in Applied Linguistics
Reflexivity in Applied Linguistics

Author: Sal Consoli

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-01-18

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 100078634X

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This edited collection provides research-informed guidance on how reflexivity may be practised in applied linguistics research. Specifically, we promote reflexivity as an essential hallmark of quality research and argue that doing reflexivity confers greater transparency, methodological rigour, depth, and trustworthiness to our scholarly inquiries. The collection features perspectives from different sub-fields of applied linguistics, including intercultural communication, language education, and multilingualism, and draws on data from a range of settings, including language cafés, classrooms, workplaces, and migration and displacement contexts. Each chapter follows a unified structure: theoretical background, context of the empirical study used as a backdrop for the chapter, an analysis of how reflexivity played out throughout the study, and conclusions which include takeaway points for other researchers. This approach allows readers to gain a sound understanding of the challenges and affordances of doing reflexivity in concrete examples of applied linguistics research whilst also gaining guidance on how to nurture and report on researcher reflexivity as this unfolds throughout the lifetime of a project. This book will appeal to students and scholars in applied linguistics, particularly those with an interest in research methods in the areas of language education, multilingualism, and intercultural communication.

What If Everybody Did That?
What If Everybody Did That?

Author: Ellen Javernick

Publisher: Marshall Cavendish

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 9780761456865

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"Text first published in 1990 by Children's Press, Inc."

Language and Emotion. Volume 1
Language and Emotion. Volume 1

Author: Gesine Lenore Schiewer

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2022-11-07

Total Pages: 704

ISBN-13: 3110347520

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The Handbook consists of four major sections. Each section is introduced by a main article: Theories of Emotion – General Aspects Perspectives in Communication Theory, Semiotics, and Linguistics Perspectives on Language and Emotion in Cultural Studies Interdisciplinary and Applied Perspectives The first section presents interdisciplinary emotion theories relevant for the field of language and communication research, including the history of emotion research. The second section focuses on the full range of emotion-related aspects in linguistics, semiotics, and communication theories. The next section focuses on cultural studies and language and emotion; emotions in arts and literature, as well as research on emotion in literary studies; and media and emotion. The final section covers different domains, social practices, and applications, such as society, policy, diplomacy, economics and business communication, religion and emotional language, the domain of affective computing in human-machine interaction, and language and emotion research for language education. Overall, this Handbook represents a comprehensive overview in a rich, diverse compendium never before published in this particular domain.

Contact, Community, and Connections: Current Approaches to Spanish in Multilingual Populations
Contact, Community, and Connections: Current Approaches to Spanish in Multilingual Populations

Author: Gregory L. Thompson

Publisher: Vernon Press

Published: 2019-09-05

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 1622737725

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This edited volume provides state of the art research on developing areas of Spanish in contact with other languages. This manuscript is unique in its broad yet coherent approach to the study of Spanish in bilingual contexts by investigating current issues in the field through well-designed research and innovative analyses. In addition, this book concludes with research on how languages in contact are reflected in individuals in educational settings as well as insights on how to teach bilinguals raised in contact with English and Spanish. This manuscript is divided into three major themes that focus on the overall issues of Spanish in bilingual contexts: 1. The first section, titled "Language and Identity," is composed of four chapters that focus on the connection between language and identity in unique settings. 2. The second section of the manuscript is titled "Language and Dialectal Contact" and is composed of six chapters that analyze the dialectal and linguistic changes in languages in contact in a variety of settings. 3. The final section is titled "Language in Educational Settings" and consists of four chapters with a focus on heritage speakers and second language students of Spanish in different classroom settings as well as abroad. This volume contributes original research in these areas in a way so as to fill valuable gaps in the current knowledge in the field especially in the innovative ways of approaching areas such as teaching heritage learners, understanding diachronic and synchronic dialectal and linguistic changes as well as innovations in language use, and how language contributes to the formation of identity.