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This book brings together multiple theoretical perspectives and disciplinary approaches to study the acquisition and development of written language by children as well as the implications for teaching and learning of writing practices in a variety of languages and cultural contexts. Chapters in this contributed volume present both theoretical contributions and results of research carried out with students and teachers from 11 countries (Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Israel, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, UK and USA) who speak seven different languages: Portuguese, Spanish, English, Italian, French, Dutch and Hebrew. By bringing together research developed in diverse cultural con...
Some teachers love grammar and some hate it, but nearly all struggle to find ways of making the mechanics of English meaningful to kids. As a middle school teacher, Jeff Anderson also discovered that his students were not grasping the basics, and that it was preventing them from reaching their potential as writers. Jeff readily admits, “I am not a grammarian, nor am I punctilious about anything,” so he began researching and testing the ideas of scores of grammar experts in his classroom, gradually finding successful ways of integrating grammar instruction into writer's workshop. Just in time for its 20th anniversary, this long awaited second edition of Mechanically Inclined continues to ...
Roving vigilantes, fear-mongering politicians, hysterical pundits, and the looming shadow of a seven hundred-mile-long fence: the US–Mexican border is one of the most complex and dynamic areas on the planet today. Hyperborder provides the most nuanced portrait yet of this dynamic region. Author Fernando Romero presents a multidisciplinary perspective informed by interviews with numerous academics, researchers, and organizations. Provocatively designed in the style of other kinetic large-scale studies like Rem Koolhaas's Content and Bruce Mau’s Massive Change, Hyperborder is an exhaustively researched report from the front lines of the border debate.
La pluralitat de llengües i de registres de la comunicació reals constitueix un factor que condiciona l’ensenyament de la llengua i la literatura que té lloc dins de les aules. Deixant de banda les concepcions rígides relatives a la norma i a l’estructura, la didàctica de les llengües troba així la seua especificitat en la complexa xarxa d’interrelacions del sistema educatiu, encara que respon també a necessitats i expectatives socials. Des d’aquestes premisses, els treballs aplegats en aquest volum –ponències i comunicacions presentades al I Congrés Internacional de Didàctica de la Llengua i la Literatura (València, 1997) –aborden el tema des del punt de vista de la diversitat discursiva, de l’ensenyament del llenguatge oral i escrit, del text literari, del plurilingüisme i dels recursos didàctics.
There is an increasing need for knowledge of toxicology to safeguard the use of chemicals in industry and in the public and private sectors. The study of toxicology is becoming increasingly relevant in human health sciences, as future health and clinical professionals will be pivotal in addressing and managing emerging chemical threats and hazards related to modern anthropogenic activities and technological development. Comprising a series of chapters from leading toxicology, pharmacy and public health academics and experts across Europe, the United States and beyond, Toxicology for the Health and Pharmaceutical Sciences provides a concise yet comprehensive volume that can be used as a relev...
Actes de les II Jornades de la Xarxa Llera sobre ensenyament i aprenentatge de la llengua i la literatura en entorns multilingües. Inclou una vintena d’activitats de recerca de sis àmbits temàtics: lectura i literatura, escriure per aprendre, reflexió gramatical, la segona llengua a l’aula, plurilingüisme a l’aula i identitats i motivació en entorns plurilingües.
En este volumen se recogen las ponencias y comunicaciones presentadas en el V Seminario Internacional de Lectura y Patrimonio que, con el título de Literatura infantil: nuevas lecturas y nuevos lectores, se celebró en el campus de Cuenca de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha del 25 al 27 de octubre de 2006, organizado por el CEPLI (Centro de Estudios de Promoción de la Lectura y Literatura Infantil) y con la colaboración de las universidades de Extremadura y Passo Fundo (Brasil), creadoras e impulsoras de este evento que se había celebrado con anterioridad en cuatro ocasiones: dos de ellas en la ciudad brasileña de Passo Fundo, una en Badajoz y otra en París.Al Seminario de Cuenca asistieron especialistas, escritores, profesores e investigadores de veintidós universidades españolas, así como otros de universidades brasileñas, mexicanas, portuguesas, colombianas y argentinas. El lector podrá encontrar los trabajos agrupados en cuatro apartados: La creación literaria para niños y jóvenes, La formación del lector, Identidad, cultura, patrimonio e interculturalidad y Nuevas lecturas y nuevos lectores.
El libro pone el foco en el liderazgo escolar y aborda cuestiones tan interesantes como el sentido de la función, los motivos que conducen a ella, las funciones y estilos de dirección, el papel de las mujeres, la evaluación de la escuela...