1. What is language? -- 2.Language Variation and Difference: dealing with diversity -- 3. What is Literacy? Traditional literacies and multiliteracies -- 4. What is text? -- 5. What is the role of talk? -- 6. The Production of Text: writing and shaping -- 7. Reading and Viewing -- 8. Validating, Monitoring, and Assessing Literacy Teaching and Learning -- 9. Pedagogies for Literacy -- 10. The role of Childrens Literature in the Practice and Pedagogy of Literacy
Summary
An exciting new introductory text intended for teacher education students encountering the study of literacy for the first time. Authors previously at University of Southern Queensland