Literacy
Subtitle: an advanced resource book
By: Brian V. Street and Adam Lefstein.
Contributors: Lefstein, Adam.
Series: Routledge applied linguistics
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9780415291811; 9780415291804
Subjects: Literacy; Literacy programs; Reading
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-264) and index.
Table of contents: title: Why study literacy?; title: Organisation of the book; title: Keywords; title: Encounters with literacy; title: Academic study of literacy : mapping the field; title: Meanings of "literacy" in different traditions; title: Literacy acquisition; title: Consequences of literacy : the literacy thesis; title: Literacy as social practice; title: New literacies; title: Keywords; title: Educational terms; title: Anthropological terms; title: Psychological terms; title: Literacy acquisition; title: Beginning to read; title: Whole language; title: Social challenges and policy; title: Literacy in schools; title: Consequences of literacy; title: The great divide; title: Testing the literacy thesis; title: Autonomous versus ideological models of literacy; title: Demythologising literacy; title: Literacy as social practice; title: Literacy practices; title: Literacy and identity; title: Multilingual literacies; title: Literacies at work; title: The literacy thesis resisted; title: Exploring literacy as social practice; title: Investigating literacy practices : an ethnographic perspective; title: Literacy log; title: Literacy and education; title: Phonics, whole language, and English orthography; title: Children's literature : code, content, and practice; title: Academic literacies; title: Literacy at large; title: Workplace literacies; title: Everyday writing in modern society; title: International policy and practice in the literacy field; title: "Literacy problems" and the mass media.