Developing advanced literacy in first and second languages : meaning with power / edited by Mary J. Schleppegrell, M. Cecilia Colombi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schleppegrell, Mary.

Colombi, Cecilia.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literacy--Study and teaching--Congresses.

Literacy.

Language and languages--Study and teaching--Congresses.

Language and languages.

Language and languages--Study and teaching.

Literacy--Study and teaching.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

x, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Mahwah, NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002.

Summary:

This book addresses the linguistic challenges that students face when they engage in academic tasks requiring advanced levels of reading and writing. To develop advanced literacy is a special challenge for students who have little opportunity to use academic language outside of school. Although much is known about early literacy, far less has been written about the development of advanced literacy as students move into secondary education and beyond. The contributors to this volume share a commitment to a view of literacy that emphasizes both the social contexts and the linguistic challenges. This book contributes in important ways to research and pedagogy on advanced literacy development for the multilingual and multicultural students in today's classrooms. It is particularly useful for researchers and students in language and education, applied linguistics, and others concerned with issues and challenges of advanced literacy development in first and second languages.

Contents:

1 Theory and Practice in the Development of Advanced Literacy / M. Cecilia Colombi, Mary J. Schleppegrell 1

2 Multimedia Semiotics: Genres for Science Education and Scientific Literacy / Jay L. Lemke 21

3 The Development of Abstraction in Adolescence in Subject English / Frances Christie 45

4 Academic Language Development in Latino Students' Writing in Spanish / M. Cecilia Colombi 67

5 Writing History: Construing Time and Value in Discourses of the Past / James R. Martin 87

6 Challenges of the Science Register for ESL Students: Errors and Meaning-Making / Mary J. Schleppegrell 119

7 On the Use of Selected Grammatical Features in Academic Writing / Marianne Celce-Murcia 143

8 Literacies, Identities, and Discourses / James Paul Gee 159

9 African American Language and Literacy / John Baugh 177

10 Enhancing the Critical Edge of (L2) Teacher-Education: Some Issues in Advanced Literacy / Vai Ramanathan 187

11 Some Key Factors Affecting English Learners' Development of Advanced Literacy / Robin Scarcella 209

12 Writing to Learn: Science in the Upper-Elementary Bilingual Classroom / Barbara J. Merino, Lorie Hammond 227

13 Writing Backwards Across Languages: The Inexpert English/Spanish Biliteracy of Uncertified Bilingual Teachers / Ofelia Garcia 245.

Notes:

Includes papers presented at a conference held Feb. 2000, University of California, Davis.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0805839828

0805839836

OCLC:

47717953