Language Arts category: 28677 books
Theatre in Passing 2
Searching for New Amsterdam
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
This book discusses spaces of performance from formal opera houses to parks and graffiti around the world and is a companion to Theatre in Passing: A Moscow Photo-Diary. Drawing once again on Michel de Certeau’s notion of a ‘second poetic geography,’ this new volume examines prominent theatrical...
Traditions of Eloquence
The Jesuits and Modern Rhetorical Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
This groundbreaking collection explores the important ways Jesuits have employed rhetoric, the ancient art of persuasion and the current art of communications, from the sixteenth century to the present. Much of the history of how Jesuit traditions contributed to the development of rhetorical theory...
Enough Said
What's Gone Wrong with the Language of Politics?
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
There’s a crisis of trust in politics across the western world. Public anger is rising and faith in conventional political leaders and parties is falling. Anti-politics, and the anti-politicians, have arrived. In Enough Said, President and CEO of The New York Times Company Mark Thompson argues that...
Reading in a Participatory Culture
Remixing Moby-Dick in the English Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Building on the groundbreaking research of the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media & Learning initiative, this book crosses the divide between digital literacies and traditional print culture to engage a generation of students who can read with a book in one hand and a mouse in the other.Reading...
by Bryan Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
500 Writing Prompts for Kids is a book full of story-starters catered to the elementary school age group that is perfect for your language arts curriculum! Writing on a variety of topics (50 topics in total) can help to improve your students' imagination, creativity, reading skills, vocabulary and...
Explore Poetry!
With 25 Great Projects
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Poems can be silly, serious, or fun, just like kids! Whether it's the sing-song rhythm of a limerick, the serendipitous magic of a found poem, the deceptive simplicity of a haiku, or the easy familiarity of an acrostic poem, children are charmed by poetry. And what's more fun than reading poetry?...
by Richard Beach, Faythe Beauchemin
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
This book explores English language arts instruction from the perspective of language as "social actions" that students and teachers enact with and toward one another to create supportive, trusting relations between students and teachers, and among students as peers. Departing from a code-based...
Sign Levels
Language and Its Evolutionary Antecedents
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Since the revolution in philosophic method that began about a century ago, the focus of philosophic attention has been on language as used both in daily conversation and in specialized institutional activities such as science, law, and the arts. But language is an extremely complex and varied means...
A Search Past Silence
The Literacy of Young Black Men
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This beautifully written book argues that educators need to understand the social worlds and complex literacy practices of African-American males in order to pay the increasing educational debt we owe all youth and break the school-to-prison pipeline. Moving portraits from the lives of six friends...
by Singgih Wibisono, Stuart Robson Dr.
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
This is the most complete and and uptodate Javanese dictionary available.
The JavaneseEnglish Dictionary is the only reference source to provide a complete listing, with clear English translations and explanations, of all current terms used in modern Javanese. It covers the whole vocabulary...
Stimme und Alter. Unterschiede oder Gemeinsamkeiten von Stimmen in verschiedenen Altersgruppen
Analyse zweier Aufnahmen für die Altersgruppe 22-26 Jahre
Language: German
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Rhetorik / Phonetik / Sprechwissenschaft, Note: 2,0, Universität des Saarlandes (Institut für Phonetik), Veranstaltung: Stimme und Alter, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Analyse zweier Aufnahmen im Vergleich mit den Analysen der Gruppe des Seminars. Aufgenommen...
Metonymy and Language
A New Theory of Linguistic Processing
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Metonymy and Language presents a new theory of language and communication in which the central focus is on the concept of metonymy, the recognition of partial matches and overlaps. Through the use of original data sets and rigorous primary research, Denroche characterizes metonymy as key to understanding...
Overtested
How High-Stakes Accountability Fails English Language Learners
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This timely book explores what is often overlooked in policy debates about the education of English language learners: how the day-to-day dynamics of the classroom are affected by high-stakes testing and the pressures students and teachers experience and internalize as a result. The author presents...
Teaching History and Social Studies to English Language Learners
Preparing Pre-Service and In-Service Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
This book investigates the preparation of secondary history and social studies (SS) teachers to teach English language learners (ELLs) in twenty-first century classrooms. This edited collection focuses on the ways in which pre-service and in-service teachers have developed – or may develop – instructional...