Literacy Unbound: Multiliterate, Multilingual, Multimodal

✍ Scribed by Toni Dobinson, Katie Dunworth

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 249
• Series: Multilingual Education 30
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume promotes a thought-provoking discussion on contemporary issues surrounding the teaching of language and literacy based on first hand experiences and research. Drawing on the authors’ experiences as teacher educators, language and literacy teachers, and researchers on literacy issues it brings together the multiple traditions. What makes the proposed volume unique is the common theme that runs through all the chapters: the examination of the term literacy, the complexity of this term and the importance of having a wide understanding of what it is before tackling educational issues of pedagogy, assessment and student engagement. What is more, as the editors argue, it is necessary to join up the dots and explore the commonalities that form the core of the literacy spectrum.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-vii
Introduction (Toni Dobinson, Katie Dunworth)....Pages 1-9
World Englishes in Academic Writing: Exploring Markers’ Responses (Toni Dobinson, Paul Mercieca, Sarah Kent)....Pages 11-30
Developing Academic Writing Literacy While Responding to Tutor Written Feedback (Hugo Santiago Sanchez, Kenan Dikilitaş)....Pages 31-46
Becoming a Member of a Community of Practice: Postgraduate Researcher Literacy Development in a UK University (Katie Dunworth, Faisal Al Saidi)....Pages 47-66
Developing Contextual Literacy English for Academic Purposes Through Content and Language Integrated Learning (Jim McKinley)....Pages 67-86
Learning by Design: Crafting the Knowledge Processes to Enable Pre-service Secondary Teachers to Design Authentic Learning (Helen CD McCarthy)....Pages 87-111
Pre-service Teachers’ Literacy Abilities: An Exploration Amidst the Criticisms (Jennifer Howell, Von Sawers)....Pages 113-132
Students’ Perceptions of the Use of Video Recording in Additional Language Oral Assessments (Qian Gong, Kyoko Kawasaki, Wai Ling Yeung, Grace Zhang, Toni Dobinson)....Pages 133-152
A Rich Mix: What Is English? Integrating Literature, Literacy, Language and Multimodal Dimensions of Meaning-Making in the UK Secondary School English Classroom (Alison Douthwaite)....Pages 153-181
Using Facebook as a Conduit to Communicate: Translanguaging Online (Rhonda Oliver, Helen CD McCarthy)....Pages 183-201
Goldilocks and the Three Semiotic Bears: Young Children’s Engagement with Early Literacy—A Vygotskian Approach (Paul Gardner)....Pages 203-224
‘To Blog, Not to Block’: Examining EFL Learners’ Language Development and Intercultural Competence in the Blogosphere Through the Sociocultural Lens (Julian Chen)....Pages 225-245

✦ Subjects

Education; Language Education; Educational Policy and Politics; Literacy; Multilingualism