Encyclopedia of Language and Education: Literacy

✍ Scribed by Kenneth S. Goodman (auth.), Viv Edwards, David Corson (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 264
• Series: Encyclopedia of Language and Education 2
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Literacy is the second volume of the Encyclopedia of Language and Education, the first attempt to overview an area which has emerged as a coherent and exciting field of study in the last two decades. While forming part of a series of eight volumes, Literacy also stands on its own, drawing on some 25 state-of-the-art reviews of current concerns in the study of literacy prepared by leading writers and researchers.

The book is organised in four main sections: Reading, Writing, The Social Context of Literacy and Literacy Teaching in Selected Regions. The approach is multidisciplinary, drawing on insights from fields as diverse as anthropology and computer science, sociolinguistics and psychology. The international flavour of the volume is reflected not only in the choice of contributors from eleven different countries but also in the emphasis throughout on the impact of globalization on our understanding of literacy.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Front Matter....Pages xvii-xvii
The Reading Process....Pages 1-7
The Teaching of Reading....Pages 9-17
Reading Skills: Emergent Literacy....Pages 19-26
Metalinguistic Skills in Reading Development....Pages 27-36
The Development of Literacy Difficulties....Pages 37-46
Reading in Multilingual Classrooms....Pages 47-56
Front Matter....Pages 57-57
Writing Systems and Orthographies....Pages 59-68
The Development of Young Children as Authors....Pages 69-76
The Teaching of Writing....Pages 77-85
The Development of Spelling and Punctuation....Pages 87-95
Handwriting Skills....Pages 97-105
Writing in Multilingual Classrooms....Pages 107-115
Front Matter....Pages 117-117
The Social Psychology of Reading....Pages 119-126
Functional Literacy....Pages 127-132
Social Literacies....Pages 133-141
Critical Approaches to Literacy....Pages 143-151
Family Literacy....Pages 153-161
Adult Literacy....Pages 163-171
Sustaining Local Literacies....Pages 173-179
IT and Literacy....Pages 181-188
Front Matter....Pages 189-189
Literacy Teaching in France....Pages 191-198
Literacy Teaching in India....Pages 199-206
Literacy Teaching in the Low Countries....Pages 207-213
Female Literacy and Life Chances in Rural Nigeria....Pages 215-223
Literacy Teaching in Norway....Pages 225-233
Back Matter....Pages 235-265

✦ Subjects

International and Comparative Education; Sociolinguistics; Social Sciences, general; Applied Linguistics